Jungle Tales of Tarzan
Written by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Narrated by Shelly Frasier
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
Jungle Tales of Tarzan explores the life of the young Tarzan, his adventurous boyhood and teen years among the great apes and other wild creatures that were his only family. The young Tarzan was unlike his companions and playmates-theirs was a simple, savage life, filled with little but killing or being killed. But Tarzan had all of a normal boy's desire to learn. He had taught himself to read from books left by his dead father. Now he sought to apply this book knowledge to the world around him. He sought for such things as the source of dreams and the whereabouts of God. And he searched for the love and affection that every human being needs.
The stories that can be found in Jungles Tales of Tarzan are "Tarzan's First Love," "The Capture of Tarzan," "The Fight for the Balu," "The God of Tarzan," "Tarzan and the Black Boy," "The Witch-Doctor Seeks Vengeance," "The End of Bukawai," "The Lion," "The Nightmare," "The Battle for Teeka," "A Jungle Joke," and "Tarzan Rescues the Moon."
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) had various jobs before getting his first fiction published at the age of 37. He established himself with wildly imaginative, swashbuckling romances about Tarzan of the Apes, John Carter of Mars and other heroes, all at large in exotic environments of perpetual adventure. Tarzan was particularly successful, appearing in silent film as early as 1918 and making the author famous. Burroughs wrote science fiction, westerns and historical adventure, all charged with his propulsive prose and often startling inventiveness. Although he claimed he sought only to provide entertainment, his work has been credited as inspirational by many authors and scientists.
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Reviews for Jungle Tales of Tarzan
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5In this Tarzan novel by Burroughs the protagonist of the story is an American named James Blake. Blake while on expedition in the Congo becomes lost all the while Arab slave traders are also invading what Tarzan perceives as his jungle. Tarzan orders both the American hunter, Blake, and the Arab slave trader to leave his jungle. But as the story progresses they are all trapped in an environment of ancient medieval cities locked in time and still fighting and living as they did seven hundred and fifty years earlier. These two cities founded by Crusaders are were Tarzan comes to the rescue by becoming involved in the Joust and earning the respect of the Knights. Of the twenty four Tarzan novels by Burroughs I have read this move from the jungle does not work as well as the first time Tarzan encountered a loss civilization and being out of his element this time does not enhance the Tarzan story line.But in the end we have the Tarzan of the jungle that we know with his Golden Lion.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good book.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Different from his novels, but interesting look at Tarzan's thought processes as he tries to figure out the world with no help.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Burroughs had become a more sophisticated writer by the time he wrote "Jungle Tales of Tarzan". He had also realized that his readers would really enjoy more tales of the youthful Tarzan, growing up, surviving his youth among the tribe of anthropoid apes, and generally having adventures before his encounter with civilization.Tarzan is so much cooler than Conan the Cimmerian!I listened to the narration from LibriVox, and it was quite as good as the work of some professional narrators.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Really liked this book. It gives a detailed view of Tarzan on a more personal level. Great read.