Doctor Dolittle's Puddleby Adventures Crested Screamers" and "The Lost Boy" are to be placed in that order within Part One, Chapter 12 of "Doctor Dolittle's Caravan". "The Story of the Maggot" is given a greatly reduced summary at the conclusion to early printings of Part Two, Chapter 4 of "Doctor Dolittle's Garden". Doctor Dolittle's Puddleby Adventures Doctor Dolittle's Puddleby Adventures is a Doctor Dolittle book written by Hugh Lofting. The book is a posthumous collection of stories that Lofting originally wrote during the 1920s for the "Herald Tribune Syndicate" but here first included in book form. The book originally contained two introductory pieces followed
Marsh Arabs in 1916, stopping at Basra and Ezra's Tomb (Al-Azair), and recorded that the Marsh Arabs were "wonderfully hard [...] but merry, and full of talk. They are in the water all their lives, and seem hardly to notice it." The way of life of the Marsh Arabs was later described by the explorer Wilfred Thesiger in his classic "The Marsh Arabs" (1964). Thesiger lived with the Marsh Arabs for months at a time over a seven-year period (1951–1958), building excellent relationships with virtually all he met, and recording the details of day-to-day life in various regions of the marshes. Many