Rudyard Kipling's Bad Trip

American Notes. By Rudyard Kipling. First published in 1891. Kindle Edition. Having read Charles Dickens�s American Notes, I decided to try Rudyard Kipling�s identically titled book, an account of a trip he made in 1889, some 50 years after Dickens�s excursion. What a letdown! I can�t say that I wasn�t warned. The introduction to the edition I read observes that these �Notes�are considered so far beneath Mr. Kipling�s real work that they have been nearly suppressed and are rarely found in a l...