The Wonders of the Jungle: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Wonders of the Jungle, credited to Sarath Kumar Ghosh, 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 The Wonders of the Jungle, by Sarath Kumar Ghosh. How do elephants drink? What is the Law of the Jungle at the water hole? How does an elephant baby learn to feed and learn to swim? How do they walk under water? In what order do buffaloes drink? How do buffaloes fight the tiger? These and other wild inhabitants of the Indian jungle such as pigs, wild dogs, deer, camels, bears and birds are discussed in lively stories to entertain but mainly educate children of school age. "One of the great thinkers of the world has said that all the sciences are embodied in natural history. Hence natural history should be taught to a child from an early age. Perhaps the best method of teaching it is to set forth the characteristics of animals in the form of a narrative. Then the child reads the narrative with pleasure and almost as a story, not as a tedious "lesson." In this book the animals are described in their daily life, and the main scientific facts and principles concerning each animal are woven into the narrative as a part of that daily life." (Summary by Phil Chenevert and from the Preface)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Wonders of the Jungle
• Author credits: Sarath Kumar Ghosh
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 3:33:36

Catalogue topics

• children
• jungle
• animals

Track guide

1. 01 - The Midnight Pool — 12:53
2. 02 - The Law of the Jungle — 12:32
3. 03 - The Elephant's Bath — 8:48
4. 04 - Elephants: The Tricks of the Jungle; — 20:13
5. 05 - Elephants: The Tricky Trap — 17:14
6. 06 - Buffaloes: The Knights of the Jungle — 20:29
7. 07 - Taming the Buffalo — 8:39
8. 08 - The Buffalo and the Boy — 14:00
9. 09 - Deer and Antelope — 14:54
10. 10 - Deer and Antelope: Their Special Gifts — 15:38
11. 11 - The Camel — 19:24
12. 12 - The Camel and The Thief — 9:35
13. 13 - Bears — 15:45
14. 14 - Bears: The Tricky Trap — 4:57
15. 15 - The Bright Birds — 14:02
16. 16 - The Caged Parrot — 4:39

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