![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s something about the way Burroughs tells stories that makes them great fun despite all the many ways he transgresses modern sensibilities. And then more white people are marooned in the same place by another bunch of mutineers, and he sees the lovely Jane… Johnny Weissmuller played the role many times…īasically, this is simply a romping adventure story that is as enjoyable now as when it took the reading public’s imagination by storm back in 1912, when it was first published in the pulp magazine The All-Story. However, when he discovers the hut his parents built and all their belongings including their books, he realises he is different from the other apes. But when disaster strikes, leaving the baby all alone in the world, he is adopted by a tribe of apes and grows up learning their ways, unaware of his own heritage. For a while they survive, long enough for Lady Alice to bear the son she was already carrying. The mutineers drop their passengers off on a wild coast, far from civilised habitation, but close to the jungle. Lord Greystoke and his young wife Lady Alice are on their way to take up a new colonial appointment in Africa when the crew of the ship they are on mutiny. The evolution of the rippling bicep… □ □ □ □ □ ![]()
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