The Day's Work

Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Charles-François Daubigny and Vasily Vereshchagin. Twelve stories about work and the men and machines that do it: a bridge that must hold in flood, a ship's engines talking among themselves, a polo pony, an Indian famine, a gathering of Vermont horses. Kipling wrote them at the height of his powers, in the years he w...