Edgar Rice Burroughs 4 hr 2 min read

When his infant son and his wife Jane are kidnapped by old enemies, Tarzan is marooned on a jungle island, and must forge an alliance with a panther, apes, and a black warrior to give chase.

Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1914 novel is the third Tarzan book, a rousing jungle adventure. Vivid, thrilling, gloriously improbable. Read it for classic ERB, the ape-man raising a savage crew of beasts and men to hunt down the villains who took his family, across jungle and sea in a relentless pursuit.

In its time

Published in 1914, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

4 hr 2 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).