The Story of Doctor Dolittle

The Story of Doctor Dolittle

By Hugh Lofting
Michael Caine
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Length2h 50m

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The main character John Dolittle, MD, is a respected physician and quiet bachelor living with his spinster sister in the small eng 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 he takes up veterinary practice. His fortunes rise and fall again after a crocodile takes up residence, leading to his sister leaving in disgust with the intention of getting married, 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 Jolliginki, a victim of European exploitation who wants no white men traveling his country… (Excerpt from Wikipedia)

Audiobook details

GenreGeneral Fiction
Length2 hrs 50 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 27, 2015
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Introduction
23THE ELEVENTH CHAPTER
2INTRODUCTION
24THE BLACK PRINCE
3THE FIRST CHAPTER
25THE TWELFTH CHAPTER
4PUDDLEBY
26MEDICINE AND MAGIC
5THE SECOND CHAPTER
27THE THIRTEENTH CHAPTER
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6ANIMAL LANGUAGE
28RED SAILS AND BLUE WINGS
7THE THIRD CHAPTER
29THE FOURTEENTH CHAPTER
8MORE MONEY TROUBLES
30THE RATS' WARNING
9THE FOURTH CHAPTER
31THE FIFTEENTH CHAPTER
10A MESSAGE FROM AFRICA
32THE BARBARY DRAGON
11THE FIFTH CHAPTER
33THE SIXTEENTH CHAPTER
12THE GREAT JOURNEY
34TOO-TOO, THE LISTENER
13THE SIXTH CHAPTER
35THE SEVENTEENTH CHAPTER
14POLYNESIA AND THE KING
36THE OCEAN GOSSIPS
15THE SEVENTH CHAPTER
37THE EIGHTEENTH CHAPTER
16THE BRIDGE OF APES
38SMELLS
17THE EIGHTH CHAPTER
39THE NINETEENTH CHAPTER
18THE LEADER OF THE LIONS
40THE ROCK
19THE NINTH CHAPTER
41THE TWENTIETH CHAPTER
20THE MONKEYS' COUNCIL
42THE FISHERMAN'S TOWN
21THE TENTH CHAPTER
43THE LAST CHAPTER
22THE RAREST ANIMAL OF ALL
44HOME AGAIN

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