Alive in the Jungle
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- First published
- 1892
- Pages
- 96Digital edition
- Language
- English
- Reading difficulty
- 4 of 10
A little about the story
On a dark night on the Bengal plain, wolves come close to Mr Desborough's indigo factory, and a small child disappears. The family's grief turns into a search that leads into the hills, among the jungle creatures and the sons of a local rana.
Young Oliver, newly arrived from England, has his own part to play in the search. Eleanor Stredder combines natural history, a tale of a lost child raised in the wild and a story about family and growing up in British India.
Things You May Not Know About Alive in the Jungle
- Published in 1892 by T. Nelson and Sons of London, Edinburgh and New York.
- A wolf-child story. It was written two years before Kipling's Jungle Book.
- Opens with Tennyson. The epigraph reads: In the night, O the night, When the wolves are howling.
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Part of Freebookia's children's classics collection, added November 2026.
