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Doctor Dolittle's Post Office

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First published: 1923
Pages: 282

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Prologue
3:14
Part I - Chapter 1 - Zuzana
10:49
Part I Chapter 2 - The Doctor's Reception on the Warship
10:43
Part I Chapter 3 - A Great Gunner
11:04
Part I Chapter 4 - The Royal Mails of Fantippo
10:48
Part I Chapter 5 - The Voyage Delayed
9:57
Part I Chapter 6 - No-Man's-Land
15:52
Part I Chapter 7 - The Animals' Paradise
11:10
Part I Chapter 8 - The Swiftest Mail in the World
16:57
Part II Chapter 1 - A Most Unusual Post Office
14:59
Part II Chapter 2 - Cheapside
14:53
Part II chapter 3 - The Birds That Helped Columbus
11:00
Part II Chapter 4 - Cape Stephen Light
15:43
Part II Chapter 5 - Gulls and Ships
15:10
Part II Chapter 6 - Weather Bureaus
9:35
Part II Chapter 7 - Teaching by Mail
4:45
Part III Chapter 1 - The Animals' Magazine
7:19
Part III Chapter 2 - The Doctor's Story
5:58
Part III Chapter 3 - Gub-Gub's Story
11:04
Part III Chapter 4 - Dab-Dab's Story
6:02
Part III Chapter 5 - The White Mouse's Story
19:42
Part III Chapter 6 - Jip's Story
16:10
Part III Chapter 7 - Too-Too's Story
14:43
Part III Chapter 8 - The Pushmi-Pullyu's Story
17:44
Part IV Chapter 1 - Parcel Post
14:46
Part IV Chapter 2 - The Great Mail Robbery
9:17
Part IV Chapter 3 - Pearls and Brussels Sprouts
9:31
Part IV Chapter 4 - Pearl Divers
13:51
Part IV Chapter 5 - Obombo's Rebellion
13:45
Part IV Chapter 6 - The Doctor's Release
10:33
Part IV Chapter 7 - A Mysterious Letter
10:01
Part IV Chapter 8 - The Land of the Mangrove Swamps
9:59
Part IV Chapter 9 - The Secret Lake
16:39
Part IV Chapter 10 - The Postmaster-General's Last Order
11:10
Part IV Chapter 11 - Good-bye to Fantippo
9:54

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About this book

Doctor Dolittle's Post Office came out in 1923 and is the third book in the series. The doctor and his animals are still on the journey home from the West African events of the first book, when they make a stop at Fantippo, a small kingdom on the coast where King Koko has decided to start a postal service. The doctor takes one look at the mess Koko has made of it and starts reorganizing.

The rest of the book covers what becomes the Swallow Mail, run by African swallows for animals across the world. There is a famous embedded story called The Story of the Animals' Magazine, which functions as a kind of mini-anthology inside the larger book. There is a long sequence about a rescued slaving ship and the recovery of pearls from the bottom of the sea by the Whale Mail. The book is sometimes considered weaker than the first two because of its episodic structure. It also contains some of the most warmly imagined Doctor Dolittle inter-species cooperation in the whole series.

Available edition: text of Project Gutenberg eBook #58947. The cover is an original BDeBooks design. The PDF has 282 pages; the EPUB is reflowable. Project Gutenberg credits and license are kept.

About the author

Hugh Lofting

Hugh John Lofting was an English-American writer, trained as a civil engineer, who created the classic children's literature character Doctor Dolittle. The fictional physician talking to animals, based in an English village, first appeared in illustrated letters to his children which Lofting sent from British Army trenches in the First World War.