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PatH · « **Reply #2840 on:** March 26, 2012, 02:09:14 PM »

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PatH · « **Reply #2841 on:** March 26, 2012, 02:10:07 PM »

Sounds good to me--bet you're right.

straudetwo · « **Reply #2842 on:** March 26, 2012, 09:39:29 PM »

WOW ! Two quickies in a row ??

Frybabe · « **Reply #2843 on:** March 26, 2012, 11:45:05 PM »

Sorry not Wells or Verne.

Author: I was born in London over 150 years ago.
I participated in four military campaigns in Africa.

Book: While this is not my first book, it is the first in this field. It started a movement.
The ideas in this book began to take shape during the African wars.

pedln · « **Reply #2844 on:** March 27, 2012, 08:37:32 PM »

Is this author a woman?

PatH · « **Reply #2845 on:** March 27, 2012, 10:13:56 PM »

I want it to be Sir Richard Burton, but I can't make him fit.

Frybabe · « **Reply #2846 on:** March 27, 2012, 11:20:46 PM »

No and No!

Author: I was born in London over 150 years ago.
I participated in four military campaigns in Africa.
I've had many awards bestowed upon me, some of my war efforts but most were for the
movement I founded.

Book: While this is not my first book, it is the first I wrote in this field. It started a movement.
The ideas in this book began to take shape during the African wars.
Originally published in six installments in 1908.

Think a little outside the box on this one. The author is more associated with the movement he founded than with the book that describes it.

rosemarykaye · « **Reply #2847 on:** March 28, 2012, 01:32:00 AM »

Robert Baden Powell - Scouting for Boys?

PatH · « **Reply #2848 on:** March 28, 2012, 08:01:45 AM »

Oh, for goodness sake! How clever can you get?

Frybabe · « **Reply #2849 on:** March 28, 2012, 08:23:08 AM »

Hurray for Rosemarykaye. She is the WINNER!

What an interesting life Baden-Powell led. In 1939 he move the family to Kenya, where he died in 1941 at age 83.

In 1909, at a Boy Scouts rally, a group of girls attended and requested that he form a girl's equivalent.
The Girl Guides was formed in 1910.

Very good Rosemarykaye. I was afraid no one would get this.

PatH · « **Reply #2850 on:** March 28, 2012, 10:08:01 AM »

I'm equally impressed with Frybabe for thinking of it and rosemarykaye for guessing it.

rosemarykaye · « **Reply #2851 on:** March 28, 2012, 12:33:23 PM »

Thanks - it was that mention of Africa that started me thinking - didn't have a clue before that.

JudeS · « **Reply #2852 on:** March 28, 2012, 06:15:27 PM »

Wow!
You folks are brilliant at finding things I never heard of or would never consider twice. Getting back in this game means getting into a differnt mind set. I'll keep trying.

pedln · « **Reply #2853 on:** March 28, 2012, 09:48:43 PM »

Wow, how really impressive. Very good, Rosemary.

straudetwo · « **Reply #2854 on:** March 30, 2012, 11:42:07 PM »

Congratulations, Rosemary !

PatH · « **Reply #2855 on:** April 05, 2012, 06:44:20 PM »

Ahem, Rosemary, you're it.

rosemarykaye · « **Reply #2856 on:** April 06, 2012, 02:37:25 AM »

Sorry, I forgot! Will try to think of something today and get it posted by tonight (but it's school holidays, so it may not arrive till tomorrow morning...)

Rosemary

rosemarykaye · « **Reply #2857 on:** April 07, 2012, 08:14:29 AM »

New quiz:

Author: British; born in 19th century, died in 20th

Book: Has been made into films, read on the radio, and adapted for the stage as both a play and a musical

Character: Has an unusual ability

PatH · « **Reply #2858 on:** April 07, 2012, 04:36:52 PM »

Hmmm. Sounds interesting.

Frybabe · « **Reply #2859 on:** April 07, 2012, 06:42:48 PM »

My first thought is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes, but that would be too easy.

pedln · « **Reply #2860 on:** April 07, 2012, 09:10:25 PM »

I had a few thoughts, but they either were born wrong or died wrong.

rosemarykaye · « **Reply #2861 on:** April 08, 2012, 09:56:00 AM »

Sorry, not Conan Doyle. More clues:

Author: British, born in 19th Century, died in 20th.
Lived in Canada, West Africa and Cuba before settling in the US

Book: Has been made into films, read on the radio, and adapted for the stage both as a play and as a musical.
Started life as letters written home from the World War One trenches

Character: Has an unusual ability.
Is a professional, but changes from one branch of this profession to another.

PatH · « **Reply #2862 on:** April 08, 2012, 11:50:44 AM »

Well, that kills my idea.

pedln · « **Reply #2863 on:** April 09, 2012, 11:52:03 AM »

I haven't a clue now, but have found two very interesting-sounding titles by two different authors while trying to figure this puzzle out. On to the TBR list.

rosemarykaye · « **Reply #2864 on:** April 09, 2012, 12:10:26 PM »

Author: British, born in 19th Century, died in 20th.
Lived in Canada, West Africa and Cuba before settling in the US
Studied engineering at MIT

Book: Has been made into films, read on the radio, and adapted for the stage both as a play and as a musical.
Started life as letters written home from the World War One trenches
Starts in a fictional West Country (England) village, but involves travel to foreign climes

Character: Has an unusual ability.
Is a professional, but changes from one branch of this profession to another.
Acquires his unusual ability from one of his companions

PatH · « **Reply #2865 on:** April 09, 2012, 01:07:56 PM »

Aaarrrggghh!

straudetwo · « **Reply #2866 on:** April 09, 2012, 03:08:12 PM »

Focal points appear to be the author's travels; studies at MIT (before the travels or after ?); experiences in WW I, which became the book.

So far I have no idea.

roshanarose · « **Reply #2867 on:** April 09, 2012, 10:50:36 PM »

I'm thinking "The Invisible Man" by H.G.Wells but there are many holes in this guess

He was a suffragist, but he taught someone else the art of invisibility, not the other way around.

PatH · « **Reply #2868 on:** April 09, 2012, 11:44:00 PM »

I think wells lived his life out in England.

rosemarykaye · « **Reply #2869 on:** April 10, 2012, 01:19:11 AM »

Sorry, not HG Wells

roshanarose · « **Reply #2870 on:** April 10, 2012, 10:56:36 PM »

Lived in Cuba is ringing a bell, but it is not loud enough.

roshanarose · « **Reply #2871 on:** April 11, 2012, 12:42:37 AM »

I am getting a mix of books and characters and authors. Help me out, Rosemary? Just noting the authors here from around that time. Some dates may help.

D.H. Lawrence
T.S. Eliot
E.M. Forster
John Galsworthy
George Bernard Shaw
Graham Greene (too young)

rosemarykaye · « **Reply #2872 on:** April 11, 2012, 06:56:50 AM »

Sorry it is not any of those writers..

More clues:

Author: British, born in 19th Century, died in 20th.
Lived in Canada, West Africa and Cuba before settling in the US
Studied engineering at MIT
Died in 1947

Book: Has been made into films, read on the radio, and adapted for the stage both as a play and as a musical.
Started life as letters written home from the World War One trenches
Starts in a fictional West Country (England) village, but involves travel to foreign climes
Was later considered racist, and some parts were re-written

Character: Has an unusual ability.
Is a professional, but changes from one branch of this profession to another.
Acquires his unusual ability from one of his companions
Is given an unusual animal in the hope that this will help restore his fortunes

I hope this does it as I am running out of clues!

Frybabe · « **Reply #2873 on:** April 11, 2012, 08:02:06 AM »

Have no clue.

PatH · « **Reply #2874 on:** April 11, 2012, 12:03:03 PM »

Quote from: Frybabe on April 11, 2012, 08:02:06 AM

Have no clue.

We'll have to get it soon, or Rosemary won't either.

roshanarose · « **Reply #2875 on:** April 11, 2012, 09:27:54 PM »

I hope that this puts us all out of our misery. Let's try:

Hugh Lofting - Doctor Doolittle (did I spell that correctly?)

PatH · « **Reply #2876 on:** April 11, 2012, 10:16:56 PM »

Brilliant, roshanarose. That's got to be it, everything fits. I didn't know they'd rewritten bits of the first book, but it sure could use it. In spite of that, I loved those books when I was a child.

Brilliant clues, rosemarykaye.

rosemarykaye · « **Reply #2877 on:** April 12, 2012, 04:14:24 AM »

HOORAH! WINNER!

Yes Roshanarose, it's Dr Doolittle by Hugh Lofting. As a child, I acquired these books from my cousin, and loved them dearly, although I don't think I understood most of the jokes. Even Madeleine liked them when she was little - they're about the only books that we've both enjoyed.

Lofting was born in Maidenhead (Berkshire) in 1886, and studied civil engineering and architecture at college. He attended MIT but ended up at London Polytechnic. He travelled to Canada as a surveyor and prospector, then worked for railway companies in West Africa & Cuba before settling in New York. He joined the British army in WWI, and began to write and illustrate stories about a kindly animal doctor when he was serving in Flanders and France. he sent these to his children in the US; after the war, on his voyage back to the US, he met a novelist who suggested he tried to publish them.

Dr John Doolittle lives in Puddleby-on-the-Marsh (which doesn't exist but could well - there are lots of villages with names like that in the west country). He has so many pets that they eventually drive his human patients away. so he becomes a vet. He has a parrot called Polynesia who helps him to learn various animal languages. He travels to Africa to help deal with an epidemic amongst the monkey population, and as a reward the monkeys kidnap a pushmi-pullyu (a sort of 2 headed unicorn) and give it to him to take back to the UK, with the idea that he will be able to make money from exhibiting it.

The books were later accused of being racist - the parrot uses racial epithets when speaking of Africans, and in one book there is a black African prince who asks the doctor to bleach his face white. Some of these episodes have been removed or changed in later editions.

This is a link to a very nice biography (with photos):

http://puddleby.tripod.com/author.html

Over to you, Roshanarose!

Rosemary

straudetwo · « **Reply #2878 on:** April 12, 2012, 02:37:14 PM »

Marvelous, Roshanarose ! Congratulations !
Rosemary, this was an enjoyable, challenging quiz with excellent clues.

The Dr. Doolittle Stories were my young son's uncontested favorites. Imitating the animals' voices became a source of endless fun. He was five when the movie (with Rex Harrison) came out in 1967. Even so, I would never have guessed the answer, probably because it never occurred to me to look up the author and his past.

Whether it be the lingering memory of these happy times, or coincidence, just on March 27, playing our Title Mania game, Dr. Doolittle and Hugh Lofting were my reply.

JoanK · « **Reply #2879 on:** April 12, 2012, 02:48:55 PM »

Wonderful!!! The racist clue should have given it to me. I loved Dr. Doolittle as a kid, especially the push-mi-pull-yu, with a head at each end. The recent series with Eddie Murphy based on it is different.

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