This is an important lesson for all of us because any good deed could someday save your life…or at least land you alive on a godforsaken coastline where almost every creature is bent on your destruction.

The reason for their marooning, opposed to being straight-up murdered by the mutineers, is because John Clayton had saved the life of the head mutineer earlier during the voyage. Like many books by Edgar Rice Burroughs, this story begins with a narrator explaining how he came across this incredible account, a story of how an English Lord by the name of John Clayton, Lord Greystoke and his wife Lady Alice were marooned on the savage coast of Africa by a group of mutineers. There have been Many Faces of Tarzan since Edgar Rice Burroughs published his first installment back in 1912 from the silent screen with Elmo Lincoln to Johnny Weissmuller for MGM, and for decades to follow many more men donned the traditional loincloth of Tarzan, but today we will look at the original story that started it all. Paperback (September 18th, 2019): $19.Stories of humans being raised by animals date as far back as the 5th Century BC with Romulus and Remus who were suckled by a she-wolf before founding Rome, and of course in the 1800s Rudyard Kipling wrote many short stories about young Mowgli who was also raised by wolves, but it wasn’t until 1912, in the pages of All-Story Magazine, did the world get one of the greatest heroes to ever grace the printed page, Tarzan of the Apes.Scholars have noted several important themes in the novel: the impact of heredity on behavior racial superiority civilization, especially as Tarzan struggles with his identity as a human sexuality and escapism. So popular was the character that Burroughs continued the series into the 1940s with two dozen sequels.

The story follows Tarzan's adventures, from his childhood being raised by apes in the jungle to his eventual encounters with other humans and Western society. It was first published in the pulp magazine The All-Story in October 1912 before being released a book in 1914. Tarzan of the Apes is a 1912 novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first in a series of twenty-four books about the title character Tarzan.

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