Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1912 · survival

Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1912 novel. Marooned by mutineers on the equatorial coast of West Africa, an English lord and lady die in the jungle, and their orphaned son is raised by great apes as Tarzan. Grown to lord of the wild, he saves a stranded American party - and follows the woman he loves, Jane, across the ocean at last to a strange new life in civilization.

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   London

   Lord and Lady Greystoke sail from England on a mission to a West African colony. When the crew mutinies, the young couple are put ashore and abandoned on a wild and lonely stretch of jungle coast.

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   West Africa

   On the equatorial coast the Greystokes build a cabin and perish, and their infant son is carried off and raised by the she-ape Kala. Growing to manhood in the jungle, the boy becomes Tarzan, lord of the apes.

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   America

   When a marooned American party stumbles into his forest, Tarzan saves the beautiful Jane Porter and loses his heart. Learning at last who he is, he crosses the ocean to America to find her again.