Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan Series, Book 1) from Books In Motion.com

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Product Description This is the first story in the Tarzan adventures novels. The legend begins when Tarzan's parents are placed on a jungle shoreline by mutinous seamen. Here they establish a crude residence and survive for a time until attacked and killed by a band of apes. But one female ape rescues the baby, takes it for her own, and raises it among a large socially organized tribe of great apres. The baby grows to be a noble man whose great strength and keen senses complete the world around him to bend to his might according to the "law of the jungle." Read by David Sharp. 8 CD's 9.2 Hrs. Review Burroughs has a gift very few writers of any kind possess: he can describe action vividly. Gore Vidal --Gore Vidal About the Author Edgar Rice Burroughs fame stems from the creation of Tarzan and the Barsoom science fiction series. He was born on September 1, 1875 in Chicago, Illinois, and entered military service in 1895. Two years later, he was diagnosed with a heart problem and was discharged. He drifted from job to job and in 1911, he found work selling pencil sharpeners. Because he had plenty of free time during this period, he started reading pulp fiction magazines. He thought that if people were getting paid for writing such rot, then he could write stories which were just as rotten. After seven years of being paid low wages he began writing his own fiction. The first Tarzan and John Carter stories were published in 1912.

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