Kipling visited Japan in 1889 and 1892. No other leading English literary figure of his day spent so long in that country or wrote so fully about it. Kipling's newspaper despatches from Japan were decsribed by the great Japanologist Basil Han Chamberlain as 'the most graphic even penned by a globetrotter'. These vivid pen-pictures, togteher with Kipling's other writings about Japan, are now collected by Sir Hugh Cortazzi and gerorge Webb, carefully edited with an introduction wand Notes.
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Kipling visited Japan in 1889 and 1892. No other leading English literary figure of his day spent so long in that country or wrote so fully about it. Kipling's newspaper despatches from Japan were decsribed by the great Japanologist Basil Han Chamberlain as 'the most graphic even penned by a globetrotter'. These vivid pen-pictures, togteher with Kipling's other writings about Japan, are now collected by Sir Hugh Cortazzi and gerorge Webb, carefully edited with an introduction wand Notes.
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Good. Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Clean interior pages. Secure packaging for safe delivery.