The Day's Work: Stories of Men at Their Trades in India and at Sea
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Twelve stories about work and the men and machines that do it: a bridge that must hold in flood, a ship's engines talking among themselves, a polo pony, an Indian famine, a gathering of Vermont horses. Kipling wrote them at the height of his powers, in the years he was living in America, and made competence itself the subject. "The Bridge-Builders" and ".007" are the two that engineers still read. Sixty plates of painting, from Menzel's ironworks and Eakins's rowers to Towne's birds and Daubigny's rivers, supply the visual counterpart to Kipling's labouring men.
Twelve stories about work and the men and machines that do it: a bridge that must hold in flood, a ship's engines talking among themselves, a polo pony, an Indian famine, a gathering of Vermont horses. Kipling wrote them at the height of his powers, in the years he was living in America, and made...
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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English writer born in Bombay and sent to England at six to be boarded with strangers. He returned to India as a journalist at sixteen, became the most popular writer in the empire, and was the first English-language winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His works include The Jungle Book, Kim, Just So Stories, and Plain Tales from the Hills.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English writer born in Bombay and sent to England at six to be boarded with strangers. He returned to India as a journalist at sixteen, became the most popular writer in the empire, and was the first English-language winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His ...
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