Rudyard Kipling is a world-renowned writer, poet, and novelist, and the first English author to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. Kipling knew the jungle not just by hearsay. He spent the first five years of his life in India with his parents and grew to love this amazing country forever. As a child, he heard his first stories from an Indian nurse and learned new words, primarily the names of plants and animals. Hathi means elephant, Bandar means monkey, and Mowgli means frog. These names appear in the legendary "Jungle Books," which collect all the stories about Mowgli—a boy raised by a wolf pack—and his friends and mentors. There are also many unusual names in the tales about the brave Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, the wilful Butterfly, and the Cat that walked by himself.
This collection includes "The Jungle Book," "The Second Jungle Book," and the collection of animal tales "Just So Stories." All texts are published unabridged, including the original epigraph-poems, and are accompanied by unique drawings created by the author and his father, the artist John Lockwood Kipling. The edition is also adorned with color illustrations by the American artist Joseph M. Gleeson.
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Illustrations: Rudyard Kipling, John Lockwood Kipling, Maurice Detmold, Edward Detmold, Joseph M. Gleeson
Pages: 624 (offset paper). Hardcover
Dimensions: 219x149x28 mm
