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Loading... The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle and Other Talesby Hugh Lofting
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I know that a lot of this is due to the time period during which this was written, but I found it irritating how ethnocentric this book was. Doctor Dolittle was portrayed as so very smart and the native people were portrayed as so very stupid. The version I read was modified to remove offensive terms for Africans, so I can't even imagine how much worse the original was. Still, the story was okay I suppose. And again, it was published in 1922, so I guess its ethnocentric themes are not THAT surprising. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Presents the story of the good doctor who learned the language of animals and made adventurous voyages. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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