Set in the teeming streets of colonial India, Kipling?s novel tells the story of Kimball O?Hara, a young Irish orphan who leads a vagabond existence, growing up in the walled city of Lahore. He befriends an old Tibetan lama searching for the mythical River of the Arrow, and with him, sets out on an incredible journey along the Grand Trunk Road. En route, Kim is embroiled in a series of adventures that have him thieving, begging and trying his hand at disguises with an eccentric bunch of characters?the enigmatic Sahiba of Saharanpur; the mysterious Bengali babu, Hurree Chunder Mookherjee, and the Pashtun horse-trader, Mahbub Ali?and is recruited by the British Secret Service to train as a young