From sea to sea; letters of travel vs The heart of a continent: Which Should You Read?

Cover of From sea to sea; letters of travel From sea to sea; letters of travel Rudyard Kipling · 1889 ★★★★☆ 3.6 512 pages · ≈ 9 h 29 m · Challenging
“AFTER seven years it pleased Necessity, whom we all serve, to turn to me and say: Now you need do Nothing Whatever.”

Galley proofs, corrected in Kipling's hand, in preparation for the 1899 ed. of "From sea to sea." Only "Letters from Marque" was retained in the published version. The other parts were not published in book form until…

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Cover of The heart of a continent The heart of a continent Sir Francis Edward Younghusband · 1896 371 pages · ≈ 6 h 52 m · Challenging

Replica of 1896 edition by John Murray, London. Oversize maps are available as a free download.  John Frederick Baddeley (July 1854 – Oxford, 16 February 1940) was a British traveller, scholar and…

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Editions 103 41
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Pages 512 371

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