Rudyard Kipling 
A Fleet in Being (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) [EPUB ebook] 
Notes of Two Trips with the Channel Squadron

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), called the “prophet of British imperialism” by George Orwell, became a pastmaster of the short story, as well as a tireless poet. The first English writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature (1907), his fiction and poetry include such works as The Jungle Book, The Light That Failed, and “Gunga Din.”