Toward the end of the book, pulled by a love triangle, she must return to her home in America. At the age of 18, he meets Jane Porter who was marooned on the same African coast, and falls in love with her.
Named Tarzan by his adopted family, he develops superhuman abilities, which allow him to fight vicious beasts, and swing through the trees with ease. After their deaths, the child they had is raised by great apes in the jungles. In the first book, Tarzan of the Apes, a British lord and lady are marooned on the coast of Africa. Burroughs began writing around the age of 36, and one of the first serials he had published in a pulp magazine in 1912, was about Tarzan. These cheap, adventure-filled booklets printed on low-cost pulp paper, instead of more expensive glossy paper, were extremely popular. He took to reading pulp magazines in his spare time. He worked in a battery factory, and later as a pencil sharpener salesman. This part in the closing chapters of the book never made it into the dozen film adaptations produced over the decades, which is why most Northwoods folk aren’t quite familiar with that part of the adventure.Įdgar Rice Burroughs was born in Chicago in 1875. At the end of the famous book, Tarzan of the apes swoops in to rescue his beloved Jane Porter in the Northern Forests of Wisconsin.
