Tarzan the Terrible by Edgar Rice Burroughs Fiction Literary Action & Adventure

<p>In the previous volume the Lord of the Jungle discovered the burnt corpse of his wife Jane after a visit to his African home by German soldiers. (One suspects that Burroughs never did like Jane; this sort of thing happened to her a lot.) In this volume Tarzan learns that Jane was not murdered by the Germans but kidnaped -- and sets off in pursuit. As the novel begins Tarzan has spent two months tracking his mate to Pal-ul-don ("Land of Men") a hidden valley in Zaire where he finds a land dinosaurs and men even stranger -- humanoids with tails. Ta-den is a hairless white-skinned Ho-don warrior; O-mat is a hairy black skinned Waz-don chief of the tribe of Kor-ul-ja. In this new world Tarzan becomes a captive -- but he impresses his captors so well that they name him Tarzan-Jad-Guru ("Tarzan the Terrible"). Meanwhile a second visitor has come to Pal-ul-don -- wearing only a loin cloth and carrying an Enfield rifle along and a long knife. Pal-ul-don is where Jane is being held captive of course. . . .</p>