THE
JUNGLE BOOK by
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The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by
English author Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893–94. The original publications contain illustrations, some by
Rudyard's father,
John Lockwood Kipling.
Kipling was born in
India and spent the first six years of his childhood there. After about ten years in
England, he went back to India and worked there for about six-and-a-half years. These stories were written when Kipling lived in
Vermont. There is evidence that it was written for his daughter
Josephine, who died in 1899 aged six, after a rare first edition of the book with a poignant handwritten note by the author to his young daughter was discovered at the
National Trust's
Wimpole Hall in Cambridgeshire in
2010.
The tales in the book (and also those in
The Second Jungle Book which followed in
1895, and which includes five further stories about
Mowgli) are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. The verses of
The Law of the Jungle, for example, lay down rules for the safety
of individuals, families and communities. Kipling put in them nearly everything he knew or "heard or dreamed about the
Indian jungle." Other readers have interpreted the work as allegories of the politics and society of the time. The best-known of them are the three stories revolving around the adventures of an abandoned "man cub" Mowgli who is raised by wolves in the Indian jungle. The most famous of the other stories are probably "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi", the story of a heroic mongoose, and "
Toomai of the Elephants", the tale of a young elephant-handler. As with much of Kipling's work, each of the stories is preceded by a piece of verse, and succeeded by another.
The Jungle Book, because of its moral tone, came to be used as a motivational book by the
Cub Scouts, a junior element of the
Scouting movement. This use of the book's universe was approved by Kipling after a direct petition of
Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Scouting movement, who had originally asked for the author's permission for the use of the
Memory Game from Kim in his scheme to develop the morale and fitness of working-class youths in cities.
Akela, the head wolf in The Jungle Book, has become a senior figure in the movement, the name being traditionally adopted by the leader of each
Cub Scout pack. (Summary adapted from
Wikipedia .org - Attribution:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index
.php?title=The_Jungle_Book&action;=history )
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Chapter listing and length:
01
Mowgli's Brothers Part 1 - 00:30:04
02 Mowgli's Brothers Part 2 - 00:24:44
03 Hunting-Song of the
Seeonee Pack Ezwa
00:01:49
04
Kaa's Hunting Part 1 - 00:41:38
05 Kaa's Hunting Part 2 - 00:33:55
06 Road-Song of the Bandar-Log - 00:02:50
07 '
Tiger! Tiger!' Part 1 - 00:19:25
08 'Tiger! Tiger!' Part 2 - 00:17:21
09
Mowgli's Song - 00:03:59
10
The White Seal Part 1 - 00:20:52
11 The White Seal Part 2 - 00:19:40
12 Lukannon - 00:03:36
13 'Rikki-Tikki-Tavi' Part 1 - 00:17:04
14 'Rikki-Tikki-Tavi' Part 2 - 00:16:55
15 Darzee's
Chant - 00:03:00
16 Toomai of the Elephants Part 1 - 00:24:15
17 Toomai of the Elephants Part 2 - 00:21:00
18
Shiv and the
Grasshopper - 00:03:07
19
Her Majesty's
Servants Part 1 - 00:14:05
20 Her Majesty's Servants Part 2 - 00:21:40
21
Parade Song of the
Camp Animals - 00:03:57
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