h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Having reread Kim recently, it presented a whole new patina from one I remember from years ago. The adventure was all in my youth, but now, the Lama, the turn of the wheel meant so much more. The love found and returned by an orphan, alone in the world imspires. Would that those in the world without close ties could so easily find and accept others caring.
Kipling did not have a wonderful childhood, sent to Endland to live in an abusive household, essentially abandoned by his parents. I suppose it could be surmised that Kipling wrote what he fantizied as a boy, placed in a setting discovered when he went to India.
One wonders how Kipling could so quickly learn so much about India.

Kipling was born in India and raised by an Ayah, from whom he learned to speak Hindustani. When he was old enough, he was sent by his parents to England in care of foster parents and thence to the United Services College at Westward Ho!. He graduated and returned to India, getting a job on a newspaper as a reporter. He understood life both in England and India. Worth reading are his books 'Captains Courageous' and 'Stalky & Co'. Despite being short-sighted he had a ready grasp for small details and the colour of life.