

Tarzan Jungle Tales
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Series: Tarzan #6
Narrator: David Sharp
Unabridged: 8 hr 10 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Books In Motion
Published: 06/15/2011
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Series: Tarzan #6
Narrator: David Sharp
Unabridged: 8 hr 10 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Books In Motion
Published: 06/15/2011
Edgar Rice Burroughs was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1875, to a prosperous family. His father was a civil war veteran. Burroughs attended several private schools, concluding with the Michigan Military Academy at Orchar Lake. Here he later became an instructor and assistant commandant. During the First World War, he served in the Seventh Cavalry and Illinois Reserve Militia, and in 1900 he married Emma Centennia Hulbert, with whom he had two sons and one daughter. Burroughs tried his luck at several different occupations, including railroad policeman, advertising agency partner, and office manager, none of which were successful, and the family lived near poverty.
The turning point came when Burroughs started to write for pulp fiction magazines at the age of thirty-five. In 1912, Burroughs's first true success came with the publication of Dejah Thoris, Princess of Mars in All-Story Magazine, which introduced his popular, invincible hero of Mars, John Carter. The Martian series eventually reached eleven books. Later that same year, Burroughs wrote his best-known book, Tarzan of the Apes. This was the start of his longest and most successful series, which eventually reached twenty-four books. Other popular stories from Burroughs's pen include the Carson of Venus books, the Pellucidar tales, and The Land That Time Forgot, a total of some sixty-eight titles.
In 1913, Burroughs founded his own publishing house, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., which still publishes his works today. Burroughs-Tarzan Enterprises and Burroughs-Tarzan Pictures were founded in 1934. Burroughs also found time to dabble in politics and was elected mayor of California Beach in 1933. During World War II, at the age of 66, he served as a war correspondent in the South Pacific and wrote columns for the Honolulu Advertiser. Burroughs died of a heart ailment on March 19, 1950.
A set of short Tarzan stories from his days among the apes, before he met anybody from the western world or knew his heritage. Tarzan is a killing machine as usual, a trickster, and endlessly curious to understand the world and his place. Burroughs skill in describing Tarzan’s introspective side is......more
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Months ago I decided to revisit the novel that started me on my path to becoming a fan of Edgar Rice Burroughs--Tarzan and the Golden Lion; it'd been many years since I'd visited the ape-man in his jungle haunts. After finishing reading Golden Lion I was encouraged to reread my favorite novel of the......more
This one was ... um ... So apparently, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar underperformed when it was first published, and for that reason (and also because he was dealing with physiological issues from spending too much time hunched over his typewriter), instead of contracting for a single novel, Burrough......more
This is a collection of loosely-connected short stories in the life of Tarzan while he was still growing into young adulthood. Events in some stories are mentioned in later stories so it is best to read them all in order. The entirety of the twelve stories actually fit chronologically within chapter......more