Doctor Dolittle's Post Office: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Doctor Dolittle's Post Office, credited to Hugh Lofting, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Doctor Dolittle's Post Office by Hugh Lofting. Read in English by Phil Chenevert Doctor Dolittle's Post Office is the exciting third in the series of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books. As usual, the Doctor has many adventures while helping his animal friends and the people he meets. At the start book, Doctor Dolittle gets help from the sea birds to help to capture a notorious slave trader and free his captives, then organizes the postal service of a small African kingdom, Fantippo, ruled over by King Koko. He does this of course with the help of all his animal friends especially the birds. He discovers a hidden island populated by peace loving creatures, gets thrown into another African jail, invents animal alphabets, and defeats at least two armies. Each of the animals in the Dolittle family also tells a quaint and personal story. The postal program grows into a worldwide postal and publishing service for the benefit of animals everywhere. ..Whew! what an adventure! .

Recording facts

• Recording title: Doctor Dolittle's Post Office
• Author credits: Hugh Lofting
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 35
• Listed recording duration: 6:54:47

Catalogue topics

• animals
• dr. dolittle

Opening tracks: first 24 of 35

1. 00 - Prologue — 3:14
2. 01 - Part I - Chapter 1 - Zuzana — 10:49
3. 02 - Part I Chapter 2 - The Doctor's Reception on the Warship — 10:43
4. 03 - Part I Chapter 3 - A Great Gunner — 10:16
5. 04 - Part I Chapter 4 - The Royal Mails of Fantippo — 10:34
6. 05 - Part I Chapter 5 - The Voyage Delayed — 9:25
7. 06 - Part I Chapter 6 - No-Man's Land — 15:47
8. 07 - Part I Chapter 7 - The Animals' Paradise — 11:10
9. 08 - Part I Chapter 8 - The Swiftest Mail in the World — 16:57
10. 09 - Part II Chapter 1 - A Most Unusual Post Office — 14:59
11. 10 - Part II Chapter 2 - Cheapside — 14:53
12. 11 - Part II chapter 3 - The Birds That Helped Columbus — 11:00
13. 12 - Part II Chapter 4 - Cape Stephen Light — 15:43
14. 13 - Part II Chapter 5 - Gulls and Ships — 15:10
15. 14 - Part II Chapter 6 - Weather Bureaus — 9:35
16. 15 - Part II Chapter 7 - Teaching by Mail — 4:45
17. 16 - Part III Chapter 1 - The Animals' Magazine — 7:19
18. 17 - Part III Chapter 2 - The Doctor's Story — 5:58
19. 18 - Part III Chapter 3 - Gub-Gub's Story — 11:04
20. 19 - Part III Chapter 4 - Dab-Dab's Story — 6:02
21. 20 - Part III Chapter 5 - The White Mouse's Story — 19:42
22. 21 - Part III Chapter 6 - Jip's Story — 16:10
23. 22 - Part III Chapter 7 - Too-Too's Story — 14:43
24. 23 - Part III Chapter 8 - The Pushmi-Pullyu's Story — 17:44

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