El hombre que llegó a ser rey

There was a time, in that lost world of childhood, when some of us dreamed of returning to Kafiristan. Evoke his name, with echoes of an esoteric geography of distant and inaccessible places, put us in a position to begin a new and exciting adventure. Those places, between the border of the known world and myth, belong to our first sentimental education, in which legendary names inhabit, such as Danny Dravot and Peachey Carnehan, undoubtedly the most emblematic protagonists, along with Kim from India, of the stories of Rudyard Kipling. This is one of those great stories that have filled our lives with dreams, whose characters have dazzled us with their skills and feats, feats full of bravery and courage, humor, romance and fabulous treasures; one of those stories full of rogues and adventurers who get caught up in the "Great Game." Returning to Kafiristan means entering the unknown, which attracts and fascinates us and where, surely, glory and fortune await us, but also defeat and tragedy. Kipling's story has never been without editions, but it seemed necessary to us to face a new translation, more rigorous with the original, duly annotated and that would finally know how to unravel the juicy nuances of the British writer's prose. For this, no one better than the writer Amelia Pérez de Villar, who dares to break with tradition and has more faithfully adjusted the English title to Castilian. Our edition is completed with the foreword by Eduardo Martínez de Pisón, who knows how to combine his extraordinary experience as a traveler and wise geographer with his passion for the landscape, the mountains and those works of universal literature -from Jules Verne to Tintin- where the map , travel and geography are a fundamental character in the narrative; and the epilogue by Ignacio Peyró, renowned Anglophile journalist and journalist, who already fascinated us with his portentous and encyclopedic Pomp and Circumstance. Sentimental Dictionary of English Culture. Our hope is that you will enter this adventure with new eyes and, with the help of Dravot and Carnehan, return to Kafiristan, perhaps to become kings.