Tarzan and the Golden Lion

By Edgar Rice Burroughs

Flora Hawkes, a previous housemaid of the Claytons', overheard the story of Tarzan's discovery of the treasure chamber in the lost city of Opar (from The Return of Tarzan and Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar). Managing to copy his map to the city, she concocts a plan to lead an expedition to collect the gold. To discourage any local denizens from questioning them, she has found a Tarzan look-alike to accompany them...

Originally published as a serial in Argosy All-Story Weekly between December 9, 1922 and January 20, 1923.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Release date: Jan 19, 2019
• ISBN: 9781479441440

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) is the creator of Tarzan, one of the most popular fictional characters of all time, and John Carter, hero of the Barsoom science fiction series. Burroughs was a prolific author, writing almost 70 books before his death in 1950, and was one of the first authors to popularize a character across multiple media, as he did with Tarzan’s appearance in comic strips, movies, and merchandise. Residing in Hawaii at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941, Burroughs was drawn into the Second World War and became one of the oldest war correspondents at the time. Edgar Rice Burroughs’s popularity continues to be memorialized through the community of Tarzana, California, which is named after the ranch he owned in the area, and through the Burrough crater on Mars, which was named in his honour.

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