Rudyard Kipling

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Rudyard Kipling
Films	The Jungle Book
Attractions	Skipper Canteen (referenced)
Biographical information
Full Name	Joseph Rudyard Kipling
Marital status	Married to Caroline Starr Balestier
Date of birth	December 30, 1865
Place of birth	Malabar Hill, Bombay Presidency, British India
Date of death	January 18, 1936
Place of death	Fitzrovia, London, England
Physical description
Species	Human
Gender	Man

Joseph Rudyard Kipling better known simply as Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is a historic English author. He is best known as author of works such as The Jungle Book (1894) though he is also a well noted racist colonist who wrote major pieces of highly racist colonial-propaganda, most famously his poem The White Man's Burden (1899) that pushed for the subjugation of non-white lands and peoples.

History

Biography

Jungle Cruise

Rudyard Kipling was a British author who in 1894 published a story called, "The Jungle Book".

Jungle Cruise appearances

Jungle Cruise

An open book in the jungle appeared in the Magic Kingdom's Jungle Cruise where it was referred to be skippers as a copy of the Jungle Book. Meet 'n' greet characters such as Baloo the Bear and King Louie can sometimes be found outside of the Jungle Cruise's building.

Skipper Canteen

The Jungle Book and Kipling; A selection of his stories by John Beecroft both appear in Alberta Falls' library within the Jungle Navigation Co. Ltd. Skipper Canteen. The Jungle Book is shown to access a secret-passageway used by the Society of Explorers and Adventurers, a fictional secret-society of colonists and aristocrats. In the menus, there are illustrations of the bandar-log monkeys from Disney's Jungle Book.

Other appearances

Buena Vista Street

A store-window featured hard-covers of the Jungle Book by, "Kipling".

Trivia

• As many Disney stories actually happened in Jungle Cruise continuity, it is unknown if the events of the Jungle Cruise happened in-universe or not.
  • An in-universe Jungle Book appears in the City Hall of Main Street, U.S.A. where it is written by, "Mancub" AKA Mowgli. This might mean that in the Jungle Cruise's universe, the Jungle Cruise was based on true-events.
• The Jungle Cruise frequently features a British colonized Burma and Irrawaddy River. The river's popularity in colonial media is largely attributed to Kipling's 1890 poem, "Mandalay" which presented a romanticized depiction of British subjugated Burma and an exoticism depiction of its women.

Gallery

Kipling's book in the Skipper Canteen