From Palm to Pine: Rudyard Kipling Abroad and at Home

192 pp. Black-and-white reproductions of photographs and illustrations throughout. From Palm to Pine is a new approach to one of England's most famous men of Letters, Rudyard Kipling. Kipling traveled the world extensively and his poems, stories, and novels, and letters are imbued with the sights and sounds of East and West. Here Marghanita Laski recreates Kipling's life and, in particular, his world- one dominated by the British Empire- showing us how he viewed it and reflected in his writing.