Doctor Dolittle's Post Office by Hugh Lofting
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"Doctor Dolittle's Post Office" by Hugh Lofting is a novel published in 1923. Set on the West Coast of Africa, the story follows Doctor Dolittle as he captures a slave trader's ship and establishes a revolutionary postal service for the African kingdom of Fantippo. Using migrating birds to carry mail across continents, he anticipates modern airmail while encountering prehistoric creatures, inventing animal alphabets, and battling armies. The tale culminates in his meeting
with Mudface the Turtle, the oldest living creature on Earth. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Lofting, Hugh, 1886-1947 |
|---|---|
| LoC No. | 23012962 |
| Title | Doctor Dolittle's Post Office |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Dolittle%27s_Post_Office |
| Note | Illustrated by the author. |
| Credits |
Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 80.6 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres |
| Subject | Fantasy fiction |
| Subject | Animals -- Juvenile fiction |
| Subject | Africa, West -- Juvenile fiction |
| Subject | Human-animal communication -- Juvenile fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 58947 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-58947-3 |
| Release Date | Feb 23, 2019 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 899 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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