Lofting's illustrations of Africans are also racist caricatures. The book contains several racial slurs and a skin whitening subplot. Stokes on Octo before being published in the UK by Cape in 1924. 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.Īlthough the book's author was British, it was published in the US by Frederick A. Dolittle's crew then have a couple of run-ins with pirates, leading to Dolittle's winning a pirate ship loaded with treasures and rescuing a boy whose uncle was abandoned on a rock island. This time they escape with the help of Prince Bumpo, who gives them a ship in exchange for Dolittle's bleaching Bumpo's face white, his greatest desire being to act as a European fairy-tale prince.

On the return trip, they again are captured in Jolliginki. In appreciation, the monkeys find the pushmi-pullyu, a shy two-headed gazelle-unicorn cross, whose rarity may bring Dr. He vaccinates the well monkeys and nurses the sick back to health.

The band barely escapes by ruse, but makes it to the monkey kingdom where things are dire indeed as a result of the raging epidemic. 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 travelling in his country. He has to borrow supplies and a ship, and sails with a crew of his favourite animals, but is shipwrecked upon arriving to Africa. He is conscripted into voyaging to Africa to cure a monkey epidemic just as he faces bankruptcy. 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. But after learning the secret of speaking to all animals from his parrot Polynesia, he takes up veterinary practice. His love of animals grows over the years and his household menagerie eventually scares off his human clientele, leading to loss of wealth. John Dolittle, MD, is a respected physician and quiet bachelor living with his spinster sister Sarah in the small English village of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh. It was one of the novels in the series which was adapted into the 1967 film Doctor Dolittle. 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 the British author 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. The Story of Doctor Dolittle at Wikisource

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