Cover of Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Tarzan of the Apes

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

347 pages~6 hrs

Born into nobility, forged in the wild.

Abandoned in the heart of the African jungle, a young boy is adopted by a tribe of great apes and transformed into the ultimate survivor. As Tarzan masters the law of the wild, he must eventually confront his own humanity when the civilized world comes crashing into his primitive paradise.

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