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After the war he settled with his family in connecticut and it was from there that he published his doctor dolittle books. The story of doctor dolittle ebook by hugh lofting. While in the trenches during world war i, rather than write home to his children about his war experiences, he instead wrote letters telling the adventures of a gentle english physician who could speak. Though his fondness for pets drives away all his human patients, as a veterinarian, doctor doolittle has the magic touch. In the story of doctor dolittle, the first of hugh loftings doctor dolittle books, we are introduced to the good doctor who gives up treating people after polynesia, his parrot, teaches him animal languages. When a swallow arrives in puddlebyonthemarsh with the news that the monkeys of africa are ill and only the. Told by nineandahalfyearold tommy stubbins, crewman and future naturalist, the.
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