THE TARZAN COLLECTION (8 Books in One Edition). Edgar Rice Burroughs

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       Edgar Rice Burroughs

      THE TARZAN COLLECTION

      (8 Books in One Edition)

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      ISBN 978-80-272-1809-7

       Edgar Rice Burroughs

      THE TARZAN COLLECTION

      (8 Books in One Edition)

      Published by

      Books

      - Advanced Digital Solutions & High-Quality eBook Formatting -

       [email protected]

      2017 © OK Publishing

       All rights reserved

      ISBN 978-80-272-1809-7

Tarzan of the Apes

       Table of Contents

       Out to Sea

       The Savage Home

       Life and Death

       The Apes

       The White Ape

       Jungle Battles

       The Light of Knowledge

       The Tree-top Hunter

       Man and Man

       The Fear-phantom

       “King of the Apes”

       Man’s Reason

       His Own Kind

       At the Mercy of the Jungle

       The Forest God

       “Most Remarkable”

       Burials

       The Jungle Toll

       The Call of the Primitive

       Heredity

       The Village of Torture

       The Search Party

       Brother Men.

       Lost Treasure

       The Outpost of the World

       The Height of Civilization

       The Giant Again

       Conclusion

      Out to Sea

       Table of Contents

      I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.

      When my convivial host discovered that he had told me so much, and that I was prone to doubtfulness, his foolish pride assumed the task the old vintage had commenced, and so he unearthed written evidence in the form of musty manuscript, and dry official records of the British Colonial Office to support many of the salient features of his remarkable narrative.

      I do not say the story is true, for I did not witness the happenings which it portrays, but the fact that in the telling of it to you I have taken fictitious names for the principal characters quite sufficiently evidences the sincerity of my own belief that it may be true.

      The yellow, mildewed pages of the diary of a man long dead, and the records of the Colonial Office dovetail perfectly with the narrative of my convivial host, and so I give you the story as I painstakingly pieced it out from these several various agencies.

      If you do not find it credible you will at least be as one with me in acknowledging that it is unique, remarkable, and interesting.

      From the records of the Colonial Office and from the dead man’s diary we learn that a certain young English nobleman, whom we shall call John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, was commissioned to make a peculiarly delicate investigation of conditions in a British West Coast African Colony from whose simple native inhabitants another European power was known to be recruiting soldiers for its native army, which it used solely for the forcible collection of rubber and ivory from the savage tribes along the Congo and the Aruwimi. The natives of the British Colony complained that many of their young men were enticed away through the medium of fair and glowing promises, but that few if any ever returned to their families.

      The Englishmen in Africa went even further, saying that these poor blacks were held in virtual slavery, since after their terms of enlistment expired their ignorance was imposed upon by their white officers, and they were told that they had yet several years to serve.

      And so the Colonial Office appointed John Clayton to a new post