Literary Tourism and Nineteenth-Century Culture

Аннотация

Should you be travelling in the far north of Vermont, USA, in the vicinity of the town of Brattleboro, you might chance upon a road called Kipling Road. If you were of an inquisitive disposition you might even follow it, and if you did, you’d come upon a grey, shingled house set into the hill, called Naulakha. Although, this being Vermont, you might well assume that this was a name derived from native American language, you would be wrong, because it is derived from a different Indian tongue entirely: it is the Hindi word for ‘priceless jewel’.