More than a hundred years after Rudyard Kipling immortalized the Indian jungle in The Book of the Jungle, artist Bhajju Shyam of the Gond tribe returns politeness to the British. After being invited to decorate the walls of an Indian restaurant in London, Shyam leaves for the first time of his village to enter a completely unknown world: an urban jungle that is absolutely mysterious and fascinating to him. The Jungle Book of London is the graphic testimony of his odyssey, where the plane that transports him to England becomes an elephant with wings, and the London bus number 30 in a faithful dog that takes him daily from the house To work safe and sound. Speaking not English, Shyam communicates in "the only language available", that of art, in which Londoners become bats that at night congregate in pubs "where they seem much happier, laugh more, and do not It is important to start con...read more