Hugh Lofting
The Story of Doctor Dolittle : Doctor Dolittle Series Classic Children's Book
eBook
(Goldfish Classics Publishing Dec. 17, 2011)
The Story of Doctor Dolittle : Doctor Dolittle Series Classic Children's Book
ADDITIONAL CONTENT :
+ The Author Biography
+ Summary & Charactors of Doctor Dolittle
+ Illustration from Original Book
+ Active Table of Contents for an easy navigation within the book
OVERVIEW:
The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts (1920), written and illustrated by Hugh Lofting, is the first of his Doctor Dolittle books, a series of children's novels about a man who learns to talk to animals and becomes their champion around the world.
SUMMARY :
John Dolittle, MD, is a respected physician and quiet bachelor living with his spinster sister in the small English village of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh. His love of animals grows over the years and his household menagerie eventually scares off his human clientele, leading to loss of wealth. But after learning the secret of speaking to all animals from his parrot Polynesia, he takes up veterinary practice.
His fortunes rise and fall again after a crocodile takes up residence, but his fame in the animal kingdom spreads throughout the world. He is conscripted into voyaging to Africa to cure a monkey epidemic just as he faces bankruptcy. He has to borrow supplies and a ship, and sails with a crew of his favourite animals, but is shipwrecked upon arriving to Africa. On the way to the monkey kingdom, his band is arrested by the king of Jolligingki, a victim of European exploitation who wants no white men traveling his country.
The band barely escapes by ruse, but finally makes it to the monkey kingdom where things are dire indeed with the raging epidemic. He vaccinates the well monkeys and finally nurses the sick back to health. In appreciation, the monkeys find a pushmi-pullyu, a shy two-headed gazelle-unicorn cross, whose rarity may bring Dr. Dolittle money back home.
Setting off on the return trip, they again are captured in Jolliginki. This time they escape with the help of Prince Bumpo, who gives them a ship in exchange for Dolittle's bleaching his face white, his greatest desire being to act as a European fairy-tale prince. Dolittle's crew then have a couple of run-ins with pirates, leading to Dolittle's winning a pirate ship loaded with treasures and boy whose uncle was abandoned on a rock island. After reuniting the two, Dolittle finally makes it home and tours with the pushmi-pullyu in a circus until he makes enough money to retire to his beloved home in Puddleby.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
I : PUDDLEBY
II : ANIMAL LANGUAGE
III : MORE MONEY TROUBLES
IV : A MESSAGE FROM AFRICA
V : THE GREAT JOURNEY
VI : POLYNESIA AND THE KING
VII : THE BRIDGE OF APES
VIII : THE LEADER OF THE LIONS
IX : THE MONKEYS' COUNCIL
X : THE RAREST ANIMAL OF ALL
XI : THE BLACK PRINCE
XII : MEDICINE AND MAGIC
XIII : RED SAILS AND BLUE WINGS
XIV : THE RATS' WARNING
XV : THE BARBARY DRAGON
XVI : TOO-TOO, THE LISTENER
XVII : THE OCEAN GOSSIPS
XVIII : SMELLS
XIX : THE ROCK
XX : THE FISHERMAN'S TOWN
XXI : HOME AGAIN
BIOGRAPHY of HUGH LOFTING
ABOUT of THE STORY OF DOCTOR DOLITTLE
ABOUT THE AUTHOR :
Hugh John Lofting (January 14, 1886 – September 26, 1947) was a British author, trained as a civil engineer, who created the character of Doctor Dolittle - one of the classics of children's literature.
Lofting was born in Maidenhead, England, to English and Irish parents. His early education was at Mount St Mary's College in Sheffield, after which he went to the United States, completing a degree in civil engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He traveled widely as a civil engineer before enlisting in the Irish Guards to serve in World War I. Not wishing to write to his children of the brutality of the war, he wrote imaginative letters that were the foundation of the successful Doctor Dolittle novels for children. Seriously wounded in the war, he moved with his family to Co
ADDITIONAL CONTENT :
+ The Author Biography
+ Summary & Charactors of Doctor Dolittle
+ Illustration from Original Book
+ Active Table of Contents for an easy navigation within the book
OVERVIEW:
The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts (1920), written and illustrated by Hugh Lofting, is the first of his Doctor Dolittle books, a series of children's novels about a man who learns to talk to animals and becomes their champion around the world.
SUMMARY :
John Dolittle, MD, is a respected physician and quiet bachelor living with his spinster sister in the small English village of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh. His love of animals grows over the years and his household menagerie eventually scares off his human clientele, leading to loss of wealth. But after learning the secret of speaking to all animals from his parrot Polynesia, he takes up veterinary practice.
His fortunes rise and fall again after a crocodile takes up residence, but his fame in the animal kingdom spreads throughout the world. He is conscripted into voyaging to Africa to cure a monkey epidemic just as he faces bankruptcy. He has to borrow supplies and a ship, and sails with a crew of his favourite animals, but is shipwrecked upon arriving to Africa. On the way to the monkey kingdom, his band is arrested by the king of Jolligingki, a victim of European exploitation who wants no white men traveling his country.
The band barely escapes by ruse, but finally makes it to the monkey kingdom where things are dire indeed with the raging epidemic. He vaccinates the well monkeys and finally nurses the sick back to health. In appreciation, the monkeys find a pushmi-pullyu, a shy two-headed gazelle-unicorn cross, whose rarity may bring Dr. Dolittle money back home.
Setting off on the return trip, they again are captured in Jolliginki. This time they escape with the help of Prince Bumpo, who gives them a ship in exchange for Dolittle's bleaching his face white, his greatest desire being to act as a European fairy-tale prince. Dolittle's crew then have a couple of run-ins with pirates, leading to Dolittle's winning a pirate ship loaded with treasures and boy whose uncle was abandoned on a rock island. After reuniting the two, Dolittle finally makes it home and tours with the pushmi-pullyu in a circus until he makes enough money to retire to his beloved home in Puddleby.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
I : PUDDLEBY
II : ANIMAL LANGUAGE
III : MORE MONEY TROUBLES
IV : A MESSAGE FROM AFRICA
V : THE GREAT JOURNEY
VI : POLYNESIA AND THE KING
VII : THE BRIDGE OF APES
VIII : THE LEADER OF THE LIONS
IX : THE MONKEYS' COUNCIL
X : THE RAREST ANIMAL OF ALL
XI : THE BLACK PRINCE
XII : MEDICINE AND MAGIC
XIII : RED SAILS AND BLUE WINGS
XIV : THE RATS' WARNING
XV : THE BARBARY DRAGON
XVI : TOO-TOO, THE LISTENER
XVII : THE OCEAN GOSSIPS
XVIII : SMELLS
XIX : THE ROCK
XX : THE FISHERMAN'S TOWN
XXI : HOME AGAIN
BIOGRAPHY of HUGH LOFTING
ABOUT of THE STORY OF DOCTOR DOLITTLE
ABOUT THE AUTHOR :
Hugh John Lofting (January 14, 1886 – September 26, 1947) was a British author, trained as a civil engineer, who created the character of Doctor Dolittle - one of the classics of children's literature.
Lofting was born in Maidenhead, England, to English and Irish parents. His early education was at Mount St Mary's College in Sheffield, after which he went to the United States, completing a degree in civil engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He traveled widely as a civil engineer before enlisting in the Irish Guards to serve in World War I. Not wishing to write to his children of the brutality of the war, he wrote imaginative letters that were the foundation of the successful Doctor Dolittle novels for children. Seriously wounded in the war, he moved with his family to Co
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