Aged twenty-three and travelling home from India, Kipling crossed the United States and wrote up what he saw for an Indian newspaper. He lands at the Golden Gate, watches city politics with horror, lands huge salmon on an Oregon river, tours Yellowstone with a crowd of fellow tourists, and is appalled by Chicago, the American army and the country’s undefended coasts.
Sharp, funny and often rude, it is a lively counterpart to Dickens’s book of the same name. Download the free EPUB.