Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan Series, Book 1) from Books In Motion.com

Gore Vidal --Gore Vidal . Burroughs has a gift very few writers of any kind possess: he can describe action vividly

But one female ape rescues the baby, takes it for her own, and raises it among a large socially organized tribe of great apres. The baby grows to be a noble man whose great strength and keen senses complete the world around him to bend to his might according to the "law of the jungle." Read by David Sharp. 8 CD's 9.2 Hrs.. The legend begins when Tarzan's parents are placed on a jungle shoreline by mutinous seamen. Here they establish a crude residence and survive for a time until attacked and killed by a band of apes. This is the first story in the Tarzan adventures no

D. Blankenship said Once a fan, always a fan. Wowthis work has been around for over 100 years now and is still going strong. The Tarzan character created by Burroughs has become an actual cultural icon and it would be difficult to find an individual of any age that does not have at least some idea of who he is/was even if they have never read this or the other books in the series.While I have always been a bigger fan of his John Carter series, I . "Fun and an eye opener" according to Mountain Home. Once you get past the bombast of the period writing, the story is quite good. Parts of it are, of course, downright ridiculous in whole, and others are only mildly impossible. Our hero is superlative, too smart, learns to read by himself, with no possible reference points, and speaks French in a matter of days. Beside all that, this is a fun book. I just had to remind myself Burroughs was writing for . "I'm shocked by how much I liked this book" according to Empty=P. I'm shocked by how much I liked this book; it's hilarious! Something you should know before reading: it's super racist and sexist. Typically this would annoy me, but somehow it comes off as funny in this book, not that racism or sexism is funny, but the writer seems so unaware of the world in general, that some of his more ridiculous depictions come off as just the flawed thinking of a individual with