{"product_id":"the-second-jungle-book","title":"The Second Jungle Book","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhen the river shrinks to a pool, even the jungle's fiercest creatures must gather at the last water.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRudyard Kipling's The Second Jungle Book brings together stories and poems about danger, loyalty and belonging. In How Fear Came, drought draws the animals to the last water. Mowgli, the human boy raised by wolves, grows toward manhood under the watchful care of Baloo and Bagheera. The jungle's laws guide him, but his place between animals and people remains uncertain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLetting in the Jungle returns to the village that casts Mowgli out, where people still fear him as a sorcerer and a wolf's child. Elsewhere, a pack of killers threatens the creatures he knows. Beyond Mowgli's world, the tales travel to a Himalayan hillside and the Arctic coast, following people who face hard choices, danger and hunger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eInside this book\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe laws of belonging\u003c\/strong\u003e – Follow Mowgli as he learns what he owes to the creatures who raise him.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA life beyond rank\u003c\/strong\u003e – Meet a statesman who leaves wealth behind in The Miracle of Purun Bhagat.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eGrim laughter by the river\u003c\/strong\u003e – Explore greed and age in The Undertakers, a dark comedy on a river sandbank.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHunger on the frozen coast\u003c\/strong\u003e – Travel with young hunter Kotuko in Quiquern, far from the forests of India.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoems between the dangers\u003c\/strong\u003e – Find a short poem after each tale, alongside animal talk, wit and adventure.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers who love adventure with a moral edge, families reading aloud, and anyone returning to Mowgli after the first book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpen the first page now, and gather with the jungle's creatures at the last water.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of Alexandria Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59534614036828,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1027\/9442\/8764\/files\/02515_en_ebook-front_c07.jpg?v=1792174959","url":"https:\/\/libraryofalexandria.com\/products\/the-second-jungle-book","provider":"The Library of Alexandria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}