Rudyard Kipling's tales of Mowgli, the Man-cub, raised by wolves,
are not for children only. They have never been out of print, and
they have shaped the English language and the British (and
American) psyche to an extraordinary degree. The stories that
concern Mowgli's adventures, from his adoption by Mother and Father
Wolf to his marriage and taking service in the Indian Forestry as
an adult, have been collected, placed in their internal
chronological order, and annotated in this volume by the historians
GMW Wemyss and Markham Shaw Pyle, the celebrated chroniclers of the
Titanic enquiries, the rise of Churchill, and how the US Congress,
four months before Pearl Harbor, kept the draft - by one vote. As
in their previous noted annotation of "The Wind in the Willows," Mr
Wemyss and Mr Pyle, the first a British historian, the second, an
American historian, have ranged widely in annotating this classic
work. It is prefaced with essays on imperialism, dryland farming,
the climate and geography of Madhya Pradesh, Kipling's tribalism
and his opposition to the Kaiser's nascent imperial adventurism,
and the image of the Mother-figure. Over 350 footnotes accompany
the text in this second edition, delving into ecology; irrigation;
literary echoes from Bunyan, the Authorised Version, Milton, Blake,
Chaucer, and Shakespeare; Kipling's literary influence upon Tolkien
and Lewis; wergild; snake-cults and Greek oracles; ethnology; mana
and tapu; Anglo-German and Anglo-Russian relations; forestry; and
any number of subjects with these, Uncle Tom Cobleigh and All. They
have given a new generation the knowledge that the initial
Victorian and Edwardian reader should have had ... and much more.
If you wish to enjoy these tales with deeper understanding; if you
wonder what Buldeo has to do with Mr Sherlock Holmes' antagonist Dr
Roylott; if you have ever wondered just why a Gond hunter reminds
you of the frontman of Jethro Tull; or if you simply want a
cracking good read of stories you but half-remember: here is your
book.
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