The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle was the second of Hugh Loftings Doctor Dolittle books. The novel is divided into six parts where Doctor Dolittle meets Tommy Stubbins the young son of a cobbler who becomes his new assistant. Tommy learns how to speak animal languages and becomes involved in the Doctors quest to find Long Arrow the greatest naturalist in the world. The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle takes the reader to the Mediterranean South America and even under the sea. Hugh John Lofting was a British author who created the character of Doctor Dolittle - one of the classics of childrens literature. His early education was at Mount St Marys College in Sheffield after which he went to the United States completing a degree in civil engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He enlisted in the Irish Guards to serve in World War I. Not wishing to write to his children of the brutality of the war he wrote imaginative letters that were the foundation of the Doctor Dolittle novels.