An Almanac of Twelve Sports

By Rudyard Kipling

This book is a short collection of a dozen poems and one for each month of the year - two-page calendar for 1898 followed by twelve color woodblocks by Nicholson with verses by Kipling on opposing pages, whose language is short but lively and interesting. Each month illustrates a different most popular sports at the end of the 19th century: "Hunting," "Racing," "Boating," "Fishing," "Skating," "Boxing," "Golf," "Shooting," "Archery," etc.

• Language: English
• Publisher: DigiCat
• Release date: May 29, 2022
• ISBN: 8596547028222

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay (now known as Mumbai), India, but returned with his parents to England at the age of five. Among Kipling’s best-known works are The Jungle Book, Just So Stories, and the poems “Mandalay” and “Gunga Din.” Kipling was the first English-language writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature (1907) and was among the youngest to have received the award. 

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