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The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle

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  1. Prologue

    1:53

  2. Part 1 Ch. 1 The Cobbler's Son

    6:49

  3. Part 1 Ch. 2 I Hear of the Great Naturalist

    12:03

  4. Part 1 Ch. 3 The Doctor's Home

    12:58

  5. Part 1 Ch. 4 The Wiff-Waff

    10:55

  6. Part 1 Ch. 5 Polynesia

    12:32

  7. Part 1 Ch. 6 The Wounded Squirrel

    5:40

  8. Part 1 Ch. 7 Shellfish Talk

    6:53

  9. Part 1 Ch. 8 Are you a Good Noticer?

    6:11

  10. Part 1 Ch. 9 The Garden of Dreams

    6:51

  11. Part 1 Ch. 10 The Private Zoo

    6:38

  12. Part 1 Ch. 11 My Schoolmaster, Polynesia

    6:24

  13. Part 1 Ch. 12 My Great Idea

    6:52

  14. Part 1 Ch. 13 A Traveler Arrives

    5:19

  15. Part 1 Ch. 14 Chee-Chee's Voyage

    4:05

  16. Part 1 Ch. 15 I Become A Doctor's Assistant

    5:14

  17. Part 2 Ch. 1 The Crew of "The Curlew"

    3:45

  18. Part 2 Ch. 2 Luke the Hermit

    5:11

  19. Part 2 Ch. 3 Jip and the Secret

    4:34

  20. Part 2 Ch. 4 Bob

    6:04

  21. Part 2 Ch. 5 Mendoza

    8:07

  22. Part 2 Ch. 6 The Judge's Dog

    5:53

  23. Part 2 Ch. 7 The End of the Mystery

    5:35

  24. Part 2 Ch. 8 Three Cheers

    5:27

  25. Part 2 Ch. 9 The Purple BIrd-of-Paradise

    4:27

  26. Part 2 Ch. 10 Long Arrow, The Son of Golden Arrow

    5:48

  27. Part 2 Ch. 11 Blind Travel

    6:05

  28. Part 2 Ch. 12 Destiny and Destination

    4:05

  29. Part 3 Ch. 1 The Third Man

    6:51

  30. Part 3 Ch. 2 Good-Bye!

    3:57

  31. Part 3 Ch. 3 Our Troubles Begin

    7:18

  32. Part 3 Ch. 4 Our Troubles Continue

    9:09

  33. Part 3 Ch. 5 Polynesia Has a Plan

    6:25

  34. Part 3 Ch. 6 The Bed-maker of Monteverde

    4:50

  35. Part 3 Ch. 7 The Doctor's Wager

    9:00

  36. Part 3 Ch. 8 The Great Bullfight

    11:51

  37. Part 3 Ch. 9 We Depart in a Hurry

    6:30

  38. Part 4 Ch. 1 Shellfish Languages Again

    7:00

  39. Part 4 Ch. 2 The Fidgit's Story

    19:13

  40. Part 4 Ch. 3 Bad Weather

    5:22

  41. Part 4 Ch. 4 Wrecked!

    10:32

  42. Part 4 Ch. 5 Land!

    8:01

  43. Part 4 Ch. 6 The Jabizri

    8:16

  44. Part 4 Ch. 7 Hawk's-head Mountain

    10:57

  45. Part 5 Ch. 1 A Great Moment

    9:45

  46. Part 5 Ch. 2 "The Men of the Moving, Land"

    5:20

  47. Part 5 Ch. 3 Fire

    6:39

  48. Part 5 Ch. 4 What Makes an Island Float

    6:16

  49. Part 5 Ch. 5 War!

    8:25

  50. Part 5 Ch. 6 General Polynesia

    6:57

  51. Part 5 Ch. 7 The Peace of the Parrots

    5:10

  52. Part 5 Ch. 8 The Hanging Stone

    8:43

  53. Part 5 Ch. 9 The Election

    11:03

  54. Part 5 Ch. 10 The Coronation of King Jong

    8:59

  55. Part 6 Ch. 1 New Popsipetel

    9:04

  56. Part 6 Ch. 2 Thoughts of Home

    8:00

  57. Part 6 Ch. 3 The Red Man's Science

    5:50

  58. Part 6 Ch. 4 The Sea-Serpent

    11:00

  59. Part 6 Ch. 5 The Shellfish Riddle Solved at Last

    8:47

  60. Part 6 Ch. 6 The Last Cabinet Meeting

    5:00

  61. Part 6 Ch. 7 The Doctor's Decision

    19:44

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The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle came out in 1922 and won the Newbery Medal the following year, the first sequel ever to do so. The narrator is no longer the omniscient bedtime-story voice of the first book but a ten-year-old cobbler's son named Tommy Stubbins, who has become the doctor's assistant and tells the entire story in retrospective first person. That choice changes everything. Voyages is much longer than The Story, much richer in detail, and considerably stranger.

Tommy and the doctor sail south on an expedition to find Long Arrow, the legendary indigenous naturalist of the floating island of Spidermonkey Island. Along the way the book introduces Miranda the purple bird of paradise, the great glass sea snail, the entire culture of the Popsipetel and Bag-jagderag peoples, and a memorable courtroom case Dolittle defends back in England on behalf of a dog. The novel does more anthropological imagining than the original, and Lofting clearly took the Newbery seriously as license to write at scale. For many readers this is the best of the entire Dolittle series. Read it after The Story.

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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.

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First published
1922
Reading time
About 5 hours
Pages
288
Language
English
Formats
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