Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1913 · survival

Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1913 novel. Restless in Paris, Tarzan takes a secret mission to Algiers, is betrayed by an enemy and cast into the sea, and washes ashore on the West African coast of his youth. Returning to the jungle, he discovers the lost city of Opar and its ancient treasure - and is reunited at last with Jane amid the wilds that made him.

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   Paris

   Living unhappily among the drawing rooms of Paris, Tarzan makes an enemy of the Russian villain Rokoff and accepts a dangerous secret assignment for the French government that will carry him to North Africa.

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   Algiers

   In Algiers and the deserts beyond, Tarzan is drawn into intrigue and ambush among the Arabs, surviving Rokoff's plots before taking ship down the coast - only to be flung overboard by his enemy into the open sea.

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   West Africa

   He swims ashore on the very jungle coast where he was raised, and sheds the trappings of civilization to become again the lord of the apes, hunting and roaming the forest that is his true home.

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   Opar

   Deep in the interior he finds the lost city of Opar, a crumbling remnant of ancient Atlantis, and its terrible priestess La - escaping with a fortune in gold and, at last, reunion with his lost love Jane.