Rudyard Kipling

Somewhere in South America, there is a plateau; and roaming in its forests are dinosaurs. Only one man has ever been there, and his reports are so astonishing that no-one is prepared to believe him; except the extraordinary Professor Challenger. He decides to take a trip to prove beyond doubt that this lost world …

Anak Didikan Rimba, atau judul aslinya The Jungle Book adalah kumpulan cerita yang ditulis oleh Rudyard Kipling. Cerita-cerita ini pertama kali diterbitkan di majalah antara tahun 1893 - 1894. Publikasi aslinya juga berisi ilustrasi, beberapa oleh ayah Rudyard, John Lockwood Kipling. Kipling lahir di India dan …

How did the camel get his hump? Why won't cats do as they are told? Who invented reading and writing? How did an inquisitive little elephant change the lives of elephants everywhere? Kipling's imagined answers to such questions draw on the beast fables he heard as a child in India, as well as on folk games with …

Kipling's epic rendition of the imperial experience in India is also his greatest long work. Two men - Kim, a boy growing into early manhood and the lama, an old ascetic priest - are fired by a quest. Kim is white, a sahib, although born in India. While he wants to play the Great Game of Imperialism, he is also …