Kipling and the Sea: Voyages and Discoveries from North Atlantic to South Pacific - Hardcover

'Andrew Lycett's splendid anthology of poetry and prose gives a great sense of Kipling's passion for the briny'
Giles Foden, Conde Nast Traveller

'an unsinkable reminder of [Kipling's] worth as a travel writer. Collecting together some 50 years of often-beautiful nautical writings, poetry and musings the hard evidence of long days spent on deck this book will mist up the glasses of even the saltiest seadog.'
Simon Reeve, Wanderlust

'A vivid chronicle... a love letter to life on the waves'
National Geographic Traveller Magazine

'this absorbing anthology of his poems and stories shows a globe-trotting creative luminary in thrall to the power and romance of the oceans'
Lonely Planet Traveller Magazine

'Lycett, who has written an acclaimed biography of Kipling, has produced an excellent anthology of his poetry, diaries and literary work that reveals the writer's admiration for the professional sailor and his fascination with all things maritime.'
--Alastair Brent, The Lady

'Andrew Lycett's perceptive selection of Rudyard Kipling's writings with nautical themes follows his acclaimed anthology Kipling Abroad. Spanning work from Kipling's youth as a journalist in the 1880s to letters written months before his death in 1936, the collection is an envoy from an era on the threshold of global change.' --(Isabel James, Country Life)

ANDREW LYCETT is the author of an acclaimed biography of Rudyard Kipling and also editor of our own successful anthology, Kipling Abroad (I.B.Tauris, 2010). As a former foreign correspondent, he has travelled widely and worked in most parts of the world written about by Kipling. His other books include the highly regarded lives of Ian Fleming, Dylan Thomas, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Wilkie Collins. He is a member of the Council of the Kipling Society and a Fellow of both the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Society of Literature.