Tarzan The Terrible , Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan The Terrible , Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Tarzan The Terrible

Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Series: Tarzan #8

Narrator: Rusty Nelson

Unabridged: 11 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/04/2015


Synopsis

In this novel two months have gone by and Tarzan is continuing to search for Jane. He has tracked her to a hidden valley called Pal-ul-don, which means "Land of Men." In Pal-ul-don Tarzan finds a realJurassic Parkfilled withdinosaurs, notably the savageTriceratops-likeGryfs, which unlike their prehistoric counterparts are predatory. Jane is also being held captive in Pal-ul-don where she becomes a pawn in a religious power struggle. Tarzan continues to pursue the rescue of his beloved, going through an extended series of fights and escapes to do so. In the end success seems beyond even his ability to achieve.

About Edgar Rice Burroughs

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Louie the Mustache on June 20, 2024

Tarzan the Terrible is book number eight from the Tarzan series of novels that reached a formidable 24 books written by ERB. It follows approximately two months after the last novel (Tarzan the Untamed) where Tarzan has just found out that Jane was not killed, but abducted for what appears to be the......more

Goodreads review by Tharindu on May 15, 2020

"Things were as they had always been and would always be as they were." Tarzan the Terrible, the 8th in the series is the second part of the Tarzan the Untamed. However, it was a little different world which the story unfolds that is completely different from any that we had seen before. Java Men and......more

Goodreads review by Joseph on February 03, 2022

This might be the best of the Tarzan novels? It begins as an immediate continuation of Tarzan the Untamed -- Tarzan, having discovered that Jane was not, in fact, killed by the German troops who razed the Greystoke estate at the beginning of the previous book, is tracking the last surviving German of......more

Goodreads review by Quentin on July 30, 2015

This was one of the more confusing Tarzan books to me. You end up with Tarzan caught between two ancient civilizations, which seems to happen a lot to him. There sure were a lot of lost civilizations in Africa around 100 years ago. Anyway, we have a prehistoric race complete with tails. Also, we hav......more

Goodreads review by Stephen on March 06, 2012

A fairly typical day in the life of Tarzan seems to go like this: (1) Scale a cliff with some new friends in search of a girl who recently fled an attacker; (2) fight and kill a lion that had menaced that girl. (3) fight single-handedly against 20 enemy warriors, taking out several before finally be......more