Table of Contents for Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.
See also The Second Jungle Book.
- Mowgli's Brothers
- Where we first meet Mowgli and the others in that universe,
and Bagheera buys Mowgli's life with that of a bull. Eleven years pass,
and then the adventure continues, and Mowgli gets the better of
Sher Khan again, using the red flower. At the end, he is sent back to
the lands of man.
- Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack
- A short verse
- Kaa's Hunting
- Another short verse
- Maxims of Baloo
- Before Mowgli was sent back to the lands of man,
Baloo was teaching him the Law of the Jungle. Most jungle
creatures only learned the parts that applied directly to
themselves, but Mowgli had to learn everything, including
how to say "We be of one blood, ye and I" in all the
languages of the jungle. Then he falls in with the Bandar-Log
who are the people without a law
(the swing dancing monkeys from the Disney movie).
The Bandar-Log capture Mowgli,
who is then rescued by Kaa, Bagheera and Baloo.
- Road-Song of the Bandar-Log
- Yet more verse
- Tiger! Tiger!
- Beginning just after the first story, Mowgli goes back
to the man village. He is adopted by a woman who lost her
own son to the jungle. He learns man's speech and customs.
Mowgli is put to work herding cattle, and uses the herd
to defeat Sher Khan. He is thrown out of the Man-Pack
and returns to live in the jungle.
- Mowgli's Song
- Fairly long verse, retelling the victory of Mowgli over Sher Khan.
From here forward, the stories are no longer in the Mowgli universe.
- The White Seal
- The story
of a white seal named Kotick, the son of one of the mightiest seals.
He looks for a place for seals to live where there are no men.
- Lukannon
- Some verse relating to The White Seal.
- Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
- This is the story of a
young and brave mongoose who defeats some badass cobras.
- Darzee's Chant
- Sung in honor of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
- Toomai of the Elephants
- Toomai is a boy who tends elephants, and has adventures
with them. Then he has even bigger adventures with elephants
in the wild.
- Shiv and the Grasshopper
- The song that Toomai's mother sang to the baby
- Her Majesty's Servants
- An army's horses, cattle and elephant stand around
talking about war.
- Parade Song of the Camp Animals
- A bit for each of the animals in Her Majesty's Servants
including elephants of the gun teams, gun bullocks,
cavalry horses, screw-gun mules, commissariat camels and
all the beasts together.