# Story of Doctor Dolittle (version 2)

An audiobook by Hugh Lofting, read by LibriVox volunteers (2 h 51 min, English).

This is the original book about the amazing Dr. Dolittle who "Besides the gold-fish in the pond at the bottom of his garden, he had rabbits in the pantry, white mice in his piano, a squirrel in the linen closet and a hedgehog in the cellar." In it, the kind hearted dreamer learns he likes animals better than humans; is introduced to animal speech by his parrot, Polynesea; becomes very poor; travels to Africa and has many adventures with his animal friends. And they are indeed friends.

[Listen](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/7214)
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