Another one that I remembered fondly from my younger days that, rereading it now for the first time in about 30 years, actually held up reasonably well.

This picks up in the immediate aftermath of Tarzan the Terrible -- Tarzan, Jane & Korak, making their way home from Pal-ul-Don, come across an orpha

"We can die but once," replied Tarzan, "and that once we must die. To be always fearing, then, would not avert it, and would make life miserable."

Unlike most in the series, the story starts completely connected with the last book, where the three were returning home. Nice of ERB to start with a less

Pulpy fun.

Tarzan raises an orphaned lion and trains it to heel, fetch, and kill. By the book's title, one might think that was the book's entire premise, but it's not. The book also includes a visit to the ancient Atlantean colony of Opar; a lost city of intelligent, diamond-mining gorilla men; evi

In this ninth book in the Tarzan series, Tarzan, Jane, and son Korak are returning home from their previous adventure (as told in the book, “Tarzan the Terrible”) and come across an orphan lion cub which Tarzan decides to take back home and train as a hunting companion. About two years pass and the

I’m still hooked on this series.

3.5 Stars

One thing I've learned about the Tarzan series: the plots are all over the place. In this volume Tarzan gets a pet lion, but there's also another plotline about a race of intelligent gorillas worshiping a lion in a lost city. There sure are a lot of lost cities in Tarzan stories! There's li

Tarzan adopts a wounded lion, or the lion adopts Tarzan, depending on your point of view.
This turns out to be a good move, after he his captured, drugged and sent to the lost city of Opar to be a sacrifice.
With only the lion, a pretty annoying comic relief monkey and the babelicious high priestess,