Mowgli: The New Adventures of the Jungle Book Mowgli: The New Adventures of the Jungle Book Mowgli: The New Adventures of the Jungle Book is an American live action television series based on the Mowgli stories from the Rudyard Kipling novels, "The Jungle Book" and "The Second Jungle Book". A contemporary adaptation, the series has Mowgli joined on his adventures by a young American girl named, Nahbiri, who has accompanied her widowed doctor father to Jabalpur, India. The show was created by Timothy Scott Bogart, Guy Toubes, and James Hereth and produced by Wolfcrest Entertainment and Franklin/Waterman Worldwide, and distributed internationally by Alliance Entertainment. It premiered on the
Rudyard Kipling in London. On 18 January 1892, Carrie Balestier (aged 29) and Rudyard Kipling (aged 26) were married in London, in the "thick of an influenza epidemic, when the undertakers had run out of black horses and the dead had to be content with brown ones." The wedding was held at All Souls Church, Langham Place. Henry James gave the bride away. Kipling and his wife settled upon a honeymoon that would take them first to the United States (including a stop at the Balestier family estate near Brattleboro, Vermont) and then on to Japan. When they arrived in Yokohama, Japan,