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Loading... Tarzan the Terribleby Edgar Rice Burroughs
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Front cover is detached and someone called R.Swinbanks has written `very good book' in pen on the front free endpaper. jon1lambert | Jan 9, 2009 |   One of the ape-man's more enthralling adventures, where he follows the lead of a dead German officer to follow his kidnaped wifr to the depths of Pal-ul-don, a prehistoric land forgotten by time. The adventures are top-notch, and Burroughs is adept here at using the primitive society of Pal-ul-don to make pointed comparisons with modern civilization. More often than not, civilized society comes off second best. The reunion of Tarzan and Jane is atypically poignant for these adventures. (  )burnit99 | Jan 1, 2007 | Lieutenant Obergatz had fled in terror from the seeking vengeance of Tarzan of the Apes. And with him, by force, he had taken Tarzan's beloved mate, Jane. Now the ape-man was following the faint spoor of their flight, into a region no man had ever penetrated. The trail led across seemingly impassable marshes into Pal-ul-don - a savage land where primitive Waz-don and Ho-don fought fiercely, wielding knives with their long, prehensile tails - and where mighty triceratops still survived from the dim dawn of time... rajendran | Jul 23, 2006 |   0.103 seconds to build listing
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0809599821, Paperback)TARZAN THE TERRIBLE continues the adventure begun in TARZAN THE UNTAMED -- in that volume, the Lord of the Jungle discovered the burnt corpse of his wife, Jane, after a visit to his African home by German soldiers. (One suspects that Burroughs never did like Jane; this sort of thing happened to her a lot.) In this volume, Tarzan learns that Jane was not murdered by the Germans but kidnaped -- and sets off in pursuit. As the novel begins, Tarzan has spent two months tracking his mate to Pal-ul-don ("Land of Men"), a hidden valley in Zaire, where he finds a land dinosaurs and men even stranger -- humanoids with tails. Ta-den is a hairless, white-skinned, Ho-don warrior; O-mat is a hairy, black skinned, Waz-don, chief of the tribe of Kor-ul-ja. In this new world Tarzan becomes a captive -- but he impresses his captors so well that they name him Tarzan-Jad-Guru ("Tarzan the Terrible"). Meanwhile, a second visitor has come to Pal-ul-don -- wearing only a loin cloth and carrying an Enfield rifle along and a long knife. Pal-ul-don is where Jane is being held captive, of course. . . .(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:22 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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