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Richly illustrated with over 300 original color photographs and diagrams the book is written in an informal manner, with minimum use of jargon, and relies heavily on first-person,...

From military camels and hunting cheetahs, to herding dogs and talking mynahs, animals have been living, working, playing and performing with humans in India for centuries. In this intimate book, John Lockwood Kipling writes about animals in daily Indian life, bringing alive the sights, sounds and smells of the nineteenth century.

In these tales, forty restless elephants are hoisted into a steam ship and nearly sink it; a guilty goat gets the thrashing of its life; a cheetah-keeper wakes up every night to a feline bedfellow; and a dog follows a king to heaven.

Kipling describes...

The Jungle Book' - Rudyard Kipling's 1894 collection of short stories, first published in magazines between 1893 and 1894. The tales of this volume represent fables featuring anthropomorphic animals that convey various moral messages. The most famous stories include 'Rikki-Tikki-Tavi', the tale of a brave mongoose, and 'Toomai of the Elephants', the story of a young elephant-handler. This timeless collection is further refined by the beautiful original illustrations of John Lockwood Kipling, W. H. Drake and Paul Frenzeny. It would make for ideal bedtime reading and is well deserving of a...

The Jungle Book' - Rudyard Kipling's 1894 collection of short stories, first published in magazines between 1893 and 1894. The tales of this volume represent fables featuring anthropomorphic animals that convey various moral messages. The most famous stories include 'Rikki-Tikki-Tavi', the tale of a brave mongoose, and 'Toomai of the Elephants', the story of a young elephant-handler. This timeless collection is further refined by the beautiful original illustrations of John Lockwood Kipling, W. H. Drake and Paul Frenzeny. It would make for ideal bedtime reading and is well deserving of a...

The Jungle Book shows Kipling's writing for children at its best. It is a collection of short stories and poems revolving round the boy Mowgli, who was raised by a pack of wolves in India. We meet the tiger Shere Khan who attacked and drove off Mowgli's parent, Bagheera, the black panher, Baloo, 'the sleepy brown bear', and the evil python, Kaa. Other stories include Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, The White Seal and Toomai of the Elephants, and the book contains the original illustrations of J. Lockwood Kipling (Rudyard's father) and W. H. Drake.

With an Afterword by David Stuart...