ILLUSTRATIONS

Unless otherwise stated, images are from Rudyard Kipling, Th e Just so Stories (London: Macmillan, 1902).

Rudyard and Josephine Kipling vi Th e Whale swallowing the Mariner 3 Th e Whale looking for the little ’Stute Fish 4 ‘A Wood Carver’ by John Lockwood Kipling, 1870 11 © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Naulakha, the Kiplings’ home in Vermont. Courtesy of 16 Th e Landmark Trust USA Decorative initial from ‘How the Camel got his Hump’ 20 Th e Djinn making the beginnings of the Magic that 22 brought the Humph to the Camel Th e Djinn in charge of All Deserts guiding the Magic with 23 his magic fan Th e camel in army service, from John Lockwood Kipling, 25 Beast and Man in India (London: Macmillan, 1891), p. 285 Lockwood and Rudyard Kipling in India © National 31 Trust / Charles Th omas Th e Parsee beginning to eat his cake on the Uninhabited 36 Island in the Red Sea Th e Parsee Pestonjee Bomonjee sitting in his palm-tree 39

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Children aboard a ship listening to Rudyard Kipling tell 42 a story, 1902 © National Trust / Charles Th omas Decorative initial from ‘How the Rhinoceros got his Skin’ 44 Wise Baviaan 52 Th e Leopard and the Ethiopian 56 Th e Elephant’s Child having his nose pulled by 65 the Crocodile Th e Elephant’s Child pulling bananas off a banana tree 66 ‘Undress’, from John Lockwood Kipling, Beast and Man in 75 India, p. 255 ‘Waiting for the Rajah’, from John Lockwood Kipling, 75 Beast and Man in India, p. 260 Ganesh, from John Lockwood Kipling, Beast and Man in 76 India, p. 232 ‘Th e Lama’ by John Lockwood Kipling, from Rudyard 81 Kipling, Kim (London: Macmillan, 1901) Old Man Kangaroo 85 Old Man Kangaroo at fi ve in the aft ernoon 90 An inciting map of the Turbid Amazon 102 Th e whole story of the Jaguar and the Hedgehog and the 104 Tortoise and the Armadillo all in a heap Taff y’s drawing on birch-bark 115 Noah’s Ark 119 Th e story of Taffi mai Metallumai carved on an old tusk 120 Initial letter T of the Alphabet story as a Stone Age axe head 128 A carp-fi sh’s mouth 129 Formal portrait of Josephine Kipling, courtesy of Th e Landmark 132 Trust USA Josephine in the garden of Naulakha, courtesy of Th e Landmark 133 Trust USA Pau Amma the Crab running away while the Eldest Magician 140 was talking to the Man and his Little Girl Daughter

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Medallion of an elephant and a swastika designed for 143 Rudyard Kipling by his father, from Edward William Bok, Th e Americanization of Edward Bok (New York: Scribner, 1921) Pau Amma the Crab rising out of the sea 145 Th e Cat that Walked by Himself 154 Th e Cave where the Man and the Woman lived fi rst of all 155 Decorated initial from ‘Th e Cat that Walked by Himself’ 156 Decorated initial from ‘Th e Butterfl y that Stamped’ 168 Th e four gull-winged Djinns lift ing up Suleiman- 173 bin-Daoud’s Palace Th e Animal that came out of the sea 174 Totem pole, Windsor Magazine (September 1903) 187 ‘Rudyard Kipling’ by Max Beerbohm, Th e Literary 200 Digest 23 (1901)

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