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Tarzan the Terrible
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Book Overview:
In the previous novel, during the early days of World War I, Tarzan discovered that his wife Jane was not killed in a fire set by German troops, but was in fact alive. In this novel two months have gone by and Tarzan is continuing to search for Jane. He has tracked her to a hidden valley called Pal-ul-don, which means "Land of Men." In Pal-ul-don Tarzan finds a real Jurassic Park filled with dinosaurs, notably the savage Triceratops-like Gryfs, which unlike their prehistoric counterparts are carnivorous. The lost valley is also home to two different races of tailed human-looking creatures, the Ho-don (hairless and white skinned) and the Waz-don (hairy and black-skinned). Tarzan befriends Ta-den, a Ho-don warrior, and Om-at, the Waz-don chief of the tribe of Kor-ul-ja. In this new world he becomes a captive but so impresses his captors with his accomplishments and skills that they name him Tarzan-Jad-Guru (Tarzan the Terrible), which is the name of the novel (Introduction by Wikipedia)
In the previous novel, during the early days of World War I, Tarzan discovered that his wife Jane was not killed in a fire set by German troops, but was in fact alive. In this novel two months have gone by and Tarzan is continuing to search for Jane. He has tracked her to a hidden valley called Pal-ul-don, which means "Land of Men." In Pal-ul-don Tarzan finds a real Jurassic Park filled with dinosaurs, notably the savage Triceratops-like Gryfs, which unlike their prehistoric counterparts are carnivorous. The lost valley is also home to two different races of tailed human-looking creatures, the Ho-don (hairless and white skinned) and the Waz-don (hairy and black-skinned). Tarzan befriends Ta-den, a Ho-don warrior, and Om-at, the Waz-don chief of the tribe of Kor-ul-ja. In this new world he becomes a captive but so impresses his captors with his accomplishments and skills that they name him Tarzan-Jad-Guru (Tarzan the Terrible), which is the name of the novel (Introduction by Wikipedia)
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As in her own Kor-ul-ja, the natural springs in the cliff had been developed by the long-dead builders of the caves so that fresh, pure water trickled now, as it had for ages, within easy access to the cave entrances. Her only difficulty would be in procuring food and for that she must take the risk at least once in two days, for she was sure that she could find fruits and tubers and perhaps small animals, birds, and eggs near the foot of the cliff, the last two, possibly, in the caves themselves. Thus might she live on here indefinitely. She felt now a certain sense of security imparted doub. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
I first read this back in 1989. It's a direct sequel to "Tarzan the Untamed," where Edgar Rice Burroughs decided to kill off Jane so Tarzan could have more and different love interests, but Burroughs' wife put her foot down and wouldn't have it, so at the end of that novel, he reveals that Jane live
My least favorite of the 6 Tarzan novels I've read so far. It does pick up with Tarzan attempting to track down the German lieutenant who kidnapped Jane in the previous book.
But from there to the end is a long and winding narrative set in a strange land with native part human tribes, giant prehisto
This might be the best of the Tarzan novels?
It begins as an immediate continuation of Tarzan the Untamed -- Tarzan, having discovered that Jane was not, in fact, killed by the German troops who razed the Greystoke estate at the beginning of the previous book, is tracking the last surviving German of
Tarzan the Terrible or just some terrible Tarzan? It was hard to decide, frankly. My opinion was largely based on what part of the book I was reading, as there were clearly some parts that were stronger than others.
Overall, I'd say this is a pretty soft conclusion to the "Finding Jane" storyline sta
"Things were as they had always been and would always be as they were."
Tarzan the Terrible, the 8th in the series is the second part of the Tarzan the Untamed. However, it was a little different world which the story unfolds that is completely different from any that we had seen before.
Java Men and
Lots of good Tarzan stuff in here and even Jane gets a chance to shine.
I liked how not just Tarzan, but all the good guy characters (including Jane!) are pretty darn awesome.
I felt Burroughs got a little too cutesy with concealing the identity of the man with the rifle until the end; people who have read the rest of the series will know who it is immediately, first-tim
A fairly typical day in the life of Tarzan seems to go like this: (1) Scale a cliff with some new friends in search of a girl who recently fled an attacker; (2) fight and kill a lion that had menaced that girl. (3) fight single-handedly against 20 enemy warriors, taking out several before finally be
This was one of the more confusing Tarzan books to me. You end up with Tarzan caught between two ancient civilizations, which seems to happen a lot to him. There sure were a lot of lost civilizations in Africa around 100 years ago. Anyway, we have a prehistoric race complete with tails. Also, we hav