![]() They capture all Kipling’s immortal creations: the gentle, lazy Baloo the Bandur-Log monkeys among the ruins and Kala Nag, the great elephant. Detmold, two artists of the golden age of illustration. The work, in two volumes, is illustrated with 130 illustrations by Paul Jouve, 17 of which are without text, in colour, some highlighted in gold and silver. This Folio Society edition contains the 1908 illustrations by Maurice and Edward J. Only 125 copies of the book were published, all of them reserved for the members of the French literary group that had commissioned its publication. Many of the names of the animals – Akela, Baloo, Shere Khan – come from the Hindi, as do many of the Jungle terms, like the word for rabies: ‘We call it hydrophobia, but they call it dewanee – the madness – and run.’Īs well as the Mowgli stories, The Jungle Book also contains poems and tales such as ‘Rikki-Tikki-Tavi’, the story of a mongoose who defends an English family from a snake, and ‘The White Seal’, the enchanting coming-of-age story of a young seal in the Bering Sea. ![]() He wrote that he put in the tales nearly everything he ‘knew or heard or dreamed about the Indian jungle’. A thrilling adventure about a boy learning to survive in the wild, it is also suffused with Kipling’s respect and affection for the natural world, and his imaginative portrayal of its complex rules and customs. ![]() ![]() It has been adapted for stage and screen, including the 1967 Disney animated film. First published in 1893–4, The Jungle Book has never lost its hold on the world’s imagination. ![]()
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