Jungle Tales of Tarzan E-book
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Genre: Children Stories, Wonder
Burroughs, Edgar Rice (1875-1950) American author. In 1896, served in the
U.S. Army's Seventh Cavalry in the Arizona Territory where he contracted
dysentery. After his discharge, he married his childhood sweetheart and
worked a variety of odd jobs including light bulb and pencil sharpener
salesman. He tried to join the Chinese Army and was so poor at one point
that he was forced to sell his wife's jewelry to survive. Turning to
writing, he created Tarzan in 1912- a character that achieved immense
popularity in print, radio, movies, and television.
Jungle Tales of Tarzan (1916) The sixth book of the Tarzan series. In this
novel, Tarzan meets up with Bakawai, a greedy and evil witch doctor. An
interesting episode that occurs in this work is when Tarzan as a practical
joke disguises himself and puts on the skin of a lion. His plan backfires
when he is mistaken for the real thing and is almost killed by the apes
whom he had planned to frighten. Only the alertness of a little monkey
saves him.
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