The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle

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Total running time:  7 hours, 43 minutes

If you enjoy The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, you’ll also like The Story of Doctor Dolittle!

Summary: Doctor John Dolittle is the central character of a series of children’s books by Hugh Lofting. He is a doctor who shuns human patients in favour of animals, with whom he can speak in their own languages. He later becomes a naturalist, using his abilities to speak with animals to better understand nature and the history of the world. (summary from Wikipedia)

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# 00 – Prologue

# 1-01 – The Cobblers Son

# 1-02 – Hear of the Great Naturalist

# 1-03 – The Doctor’s Home

# 1-04 – The Wiff Waff

# 1-05 – Polynesia

A young squirrel Sciurius Vulgaris in Lazienki Park in Warsaw, imgae released to public domain by its author Giorgiomonteforti

# 1-06 – The Wounded Squirrel

# 1-07 – Shellfish Talk

# 1-08 – Are You A Good Noticer

# 1-09 – The Garden Dreams

# 1-10 – The Private Zoo

# 1-11 – My Schoolmaster, Polynesia

# 1-12 – My Great Idea

# 1-13 – A Traveler Arrives

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# 1-14 – Chee-Chee’s Voyage

# 1-15 – I Become A Doctor’s Assistant

# 2-01 – The Crew of The Curlew

# 2-02 – Luke the Hermit

# 2-03 – Jip and the Secret

Duke's Destiny by Janneke Vreugdenhil, image released to public domain by its author

# 2-04 – Bob

# 2-05 – Mendoza

# 2-06 – The Judge’s Dog

# 2-07 – The End of the Mystery

# 2-08 – Three Cheers

# 2-09 – The Purple Bird-of-Paradise

Cunne Shote (painting title), portrait of Cherokee leader Standing Turkey by Francis Parsons, public domain image

# 2-10 – Long Arrow, The Son of Golden Arrow

# 2-11 – Blind Travel

# 2-12 – Destiny and Destination

# 3-01 – The Third Man

# 3-02 – Good-Bye!

# 3-03 – Our Troubles Begin

# 3-04 – Our Troubles Continue

# 3-05 – Polynesia Has a Plan

# 3-06 – The Bed-maker of Monteverde

# 3-07 – The Doctor’s Wager

Olot Bull Fight Arena in Catalunya Spain, image released to public domain by its author, Wamito

# 3-08 – The Great Bullfight

# 3-09 – We Depart In A Hurry

# 4-01 – Shellfish Languages Again

# 4-02 – The Fidgit’s Story

# 4-03 – Bad Weather

# 4-04 – Wrecked!

# 4-05 – Land

# 4-06 – The Jabizri

# 4-07 – Hawk’s-Head Mountain

# 5-01 – A Great Moment

# 5-02 – The Men of The Moving Land

# 5-03 – Fire

# 5-04 – What Makes an Island Float

# 5-05 – War!

# 5-06 – General Polynesia

# 5-07 – The Peace Of The Parrots

# 5-08 – The Hanging Rock

# 5-09 – The Election

# 5-10 – The Coronation of King Jong

# 6-01 – New Popsipetel Jong

Cottage in Cranbrook, Kent, from a water color drawing by Herbert Alexander, public domain image

# 6-02 – Thoughts of Home

# 6-03 – The Red Man’s Science

# 6-04 – The Sea Serpent

# 6-05 – The Shellfish Riddle Solved At Last

# 6-06 – The Last Cabinet Meeting

# 6-07 – The Doctor’s Decision

The Story of Doctor Dolittle

Edward Cross by Jacques Laurent Agasse, public domain

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Book summary from Librivox: In The Story of Doctor Dolittle (1920), the first of Hugh Lofting’s Doctor Dolittle books, we are introduced to the good doctor who gives up treating people after Polynesia, his parrot, teaches him animal languages. His fame in the animal kingdom spreads throughout the world and soon he sets off to cure a monkey epidemic in Africa, finding all sorts of exciting adventures on the way.

This recording is of the original edition, which is in the public domain. Later editions, which are still under copyright, changed some language and plot elements that are considered racially derogatory.
(Summary adapted from wikipedia.org by Annie Coleman)

Author’s Note and Dedication ; Introduction – 00:08:55

The First Chapter – Puddleby – 00:06:10

The Second Chapter – Animal Language – 00:13:08

Man's Best Friend by Repin, 1908, public domain

The Third Chapter – More Money Troubles – 00:07:28

The Fourth Chapter – A Message From Africa – 00:06:19

The Fifth Chapter – The Great Journey – 00:06:24

The Sixth Chapter – Polynesia and the King – 00:06:07

Junge Angorakatze, painting by German-Hungarian painter Arthur Heyer, public domain image

The Seventh Chapter – The Bridge of Apes – 00:11:04

The Eighth Chapter – The Leader of the Lions – 00:07:07

The Ninth Chapter – The Monkeys’ Council – 00:06:20

The Tenth Chapter – The Rarest Animal of All – 00:09:13

The Eleventh Chapter – The Black Prince – 00:10:33

The Twelfth Chapter – Medicine and Magic – 00:15:07

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The Thirteenth Chapter – Red Sails and Blue Wings – 00:07:27

The Fourteenth Chapter – The Rats’ Warning – 00:08:21

The Fifteenth Chapter – The Barbary Dragon – 00:10:37

The Sixteenth Chapter – Too-Too the Listener – 00:07:58

The Seventeenth Chapter – The Ocean Gossips – 00:07:28

The Eighteenth Chapter – Smells – 00:12:19

The Nineteenth Chapter – The Rock – 00:08:29

The Twentieth Chapter – The Fisherman – 00:07:09

The Last Chapter – Home Again – 00:05:02

Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

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How the Whale Got His Throat

Just so Camel

How The Camel Got His Hump

How The Rhinoceros Got His Skin

Just so rhino

How the Leopard Got His Spots

The Elephant’s Child

The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo


The Beginning of the Armadillos

How the First Letter was Written

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How The Alphabet Was Made

The Crab that Played with the Sea

The Cat that Walked by Himself

The Butterfly that Stamped

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

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The tiger's roar filled the cave with thunder.
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Chapter 1- Mowgli’s Brothers (part 1)

Chapter 1 – Mowgli’s Brothers (part 2) + Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack

"Wake, Little Brother."
"Wake, Little Brother."

Chapter 2 – Kaa’s Hunting (part 1)

Chapter 2 – Kaa’s Hunting (part 2) + Road-Song of the Bandar-Log

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Shere Khan

Chapter 3 – Tiger! Tiger! (part 1)

Chapter 3- Tiger! Tiger! (part 2) + Mowgli’s Song

Chapter 4 – The White Seal (part 1)

Chapter 4 – The White Seal (part 2) + Lukannon

Rikki Tikki looked down between the boy's collar and neck.
Rikki Tikki looked down between the boy's collar and neck.

Chapter 5- Rikki-Tikki-Tavi + Darzee’s Chant

Chapter 6 – Toomai of the Elephants + Shiv and the Grasshopper

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Chapter 7 – Her Majesty’s Servants + Parade Song of the Camp Animals

Cat Tales

Cats Best of Friends by Henriette Ronner-Knip, public domain

Cat Tales is the first of a series of kid-friendly collections of animal stories and non-fiction. There’ll be one or two grade-school-level texts on the animal, with eight-nine fiction works. Source for these is Project Gutenberg. (Summary by BellonaTimes for Librivox)

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Total running time: 1 hour, 55 minutes

Cats Studies of an Awakening Kitten by Henriette Ronner-Knip, public domain

01 – Cats

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02 – Kittens Will Be Kittens by Mabel Humphrey

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03 – The Great Panjandrum by Mabel

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04 – The Kitten Who Lost Herself by Clara Dillingham

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05 – Pussy-cat Mew by L. Frank Baum

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06 – Cats by Mrs. R. Lee

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Cats Puss in Boots, illustration by Carl Offterdinger, public domain

07 – Puss In Boots by Robert Ford

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08 – The Tiger, The Brahman & The Jackal by Joseph Jacobs

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Cats Királytigris by Vastagh Geza, public domain

09 – Androcles by Aesop

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10 – The Lion and the Cat by Andrew Lang

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Call of the Wild by Jack London

Jack London Call of the Wild first edition

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Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

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Running time: 6 hours, 15 minutes

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Chapter 01 – My Early Home

Chapter 02 – The Hunt

Chapter 03 – My Breaking In

"After a struggle, I threw him off backward."

Chapter 04 – Birtwick Park

Chapter 05 – A Fair Start

Chapter 06 – Liberty

"Is that pony made of flesh and blood?"

Chapter 07 – Ginger

Chapter 08 – Ginger’s Story Continued

Chapter 09 – Merrylegs

Chapter 10 – A Talk in the Orchard

Chapter 11 – Plain Speaking

"The bridge is broken in the middle", said John.

Chapter 12 – A Stormy Day

Chapter 13 – The Devil’s Trade Mark

Chapter 14 – James Howard

Chapter 15 – The Old Hostler

Chapter 16 – The Fire

"Her hat was gone, her hair streaming behind her."



Chapter 17 – John Manly’s Talk

Chapter 18 – Going for the Doctor

Chapter 19 – Only Ignorance

Chapter 20 – Joe Green

Chapter 21 – The Parting

"I uttered no sound, but stood there and listened."

Chapter 22 – Earlshall

Chapter 23 – A Strike for Liberty

Chapter 24 – The Lady Anne, or a Runaway Horse

Chapter 25 – Reuben Smith

Chapter 26 – How It Ended

Chapter 27 – Ruined and Going Downhill

"I was driven away by the force of their charge."

Chapter 28 – A Job Horse and His Drivers

Chapter 29 – Cockneys

Chapter 30 – A Thief

Chapter 31 – A Humbug

Chapter 32 – A Horse Fair

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Chapter 33 – A London Cab Horse

Chapter 34 – An Old War Horse

Chapter 35 – Jerry Barker

Chapter 36 – The Sunday Cab

Chapter 37 – The Golden Rule

Chapter 38 – Dolly and a Real Gentleman

Chapter 39 – Seedy Sam

Chapter 40 – Poor Ginger

Chapter 41 – The Butcher

Chapter 42 – The Election

Chapter 43 – A Friend in Need

Black Beauty author Anna Sewell

Chapter 44 – Old Captain and His Successor

Chapter 45 – Jerry

Chapter 46 – Jakes and the Lady

Chapter 47 – Hard Times

Chapter 48 – Farmer Thoroughgood and His Grandson Willie

Chapter 49 – My Last Home