000 -LEADER |
fixed length control field |
02916cam a2200361 a 4500 |
001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
control field |
36307943 |
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
control field |
DOGA |
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
control field |
20190711210948.0 |
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
fixed length control field |
970127s1997 miua 000 0 eng |
010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
LC control number |
97004252 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
0472108549 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9780472108541 |
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
Transcribing agency |
doga |
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
Classification number |
PR4854.K43 |
Item number |
H67 1997 |
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
Edition number |
22 |
Classification number |
823.8 HO.Q 1997 |
Item number |
02210 |
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Hopkirk, Peter. |
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
Quest for Kim : |
Remainder of title |
in search of Kipling's great game / |
Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Peter Hopkirk ; illustrations by Janina Slater. |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Ann Arbor, Mich. : |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
University of Michigan Press, |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
1997. |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
274 p. : |
Other physical details |
ill. ; |
Dimensions |
23 cm. |
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
Formatted contents note |
Prologue: 'Here begins the Great Game ...' -- Who Was Kim? -- Enter the Lama -- Enter Mahbub Ali -- 'The Te-rain' -- Searching for the Colonel's Bungalow -- The Red Bull -- Who Was Colonel Creighton? -- School for Spies -- The Secret World of Simla -- Lurgan Sahib's Vanishing Shop -- Jacob Strikes Back -- Enter the Russians -- Who Was the Babu? -- The River of the Arrow -- Epilogue: 'When everyone is dead ...'. |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc. |
Fascinated since childhood by Kim, that strange tale of an orphan boy's recruitment into the Indian secret service, Peter Hopkirk, the renowned author of The Great Game, here sets out on an intriguing journey across India and Pakistan to unlock the many mysteries surrounding Kipling's great novel. As he travels, Hopkirk's detective work reveals that most of Kim's characters - Kim himself, the old Tibetan lama, Colonel Creighton, Mahbub Ali, Lurgan Sahib and the Babu (or agent R 17) - were inspired in whole or in part by actual individuals. Likewise its locations are real - all of them familiar to the young Kipling when, more than a century ago, he worked as a reporter on a Lahore newspaper. |
520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc. |
Because its hero is a teenage boy, many people mistakenly believe Kim to be a children's book. But nothing could be further from the truth, and modern critics judge it to be one of the finest novels in the English language, unsurpassed in many of its descriptive passages. For into it Kipling poured all of his deeply felt passion for India. Hopkirk carefully sketches in Kipling's narrative so that it is not essential to have read Kim in order to enjoy this book. It is both a travel adventure and a literary detective story, but above all an affectionate salute to Kim by one in whom it inspired a lifelong pursuit of the Great Game - "that never ceases day and night" and still goes on today. |
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Kipling, Rudyard, |
Dates associated with a name |
1865-1936. |
Title of a work |
Kim. |
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Kipling, Rudyard, |
Dates associated with a name |
1865-1936 |
General subdivision |
Knowledge |
-- |
India. |
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Kipling, Rudyard, |
Dates associated with a name |
1865-1936 |
General subdivision |
Knowledge |
-- |
Pakistan. |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
English literature |
General subdivision |
Indic influences. |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Orphans in literature. |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Spies in literature. |
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
Geographic name |
Pakistan |
General subdivision |
In literature. |
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
Geographic name |
India |
General subdivision |
In literature. |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
Source of classification or shelving scheme |
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Koha item type |
Books |