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6th Mar '13 12:40:19 AM PaulA

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After a brutal mutiny aboard the ship ''Fulwada'', the English lord, John Clayton, is marooned in [[DarkestAfrica an African Jungle]] along with his pregnant wife, Alice (Respectively Lord and Lady Greystoke). John builds a secure treehouse to protect from the beasts of the jungle, and spends a year providing for his wife and infant son before the two English nobles both die. A band of apes[[labelnote:*]]referred to in the books as "Mangani," who in turn refer to gorillas as "Bulgani"[[/labelnote]] lead by the savage Kerchak goes to explore the Clayton's tree home shortly after John's death. The female ape, Kala, finds the young Lord Greystoke and adopts him, naming him "Tarzan", meaning "white skin".

Kala raises Tarzan among the apes and he grows up as a creature of the jungle, fighting lions/leopards[[hottip:*: In the original edition, Tarzan encounters lions in the African jungle, which was later retconned to leopards.]], and having many unseen encounters with the natives. Tarzan finds his old cabin and teaches himself how to read over the course of a decade. One day a group of foreigners become stranded in the jungle by boat as well, one of them being his cousin William Cecil Clayton, and another being an American girl named Jane Porter. And [[ItWasHisSled we all know how that turns out]].

''Tarzan of the Apes'' was published by Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs in 1912[[hottip:*: In a magazine. The novel was published in 1914]] and takes place in roughly the same time period. It is the first of his ''{{Tarzan}}'' series, which spans over two dozen published books, most of which are now in the public domain[[hottip:*: in the United States at least. It's still in copyright in Europe.]]. Can be read [[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/78 here]].

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After a brutal mutiny aboard the ship ''Fulwada'', the English lord, John Clayton, is marooned in [[DarkestAfrica an African Jungle]] along with his pregnant wife, Alice (Respectively Lord and Lady Greystoke). John builds a secure treehouse to protect from the beasts of the jungle, and spends a year providing for his wife and infant son before the two English nobles both die. A band of apes[[note]]referred to in the books as "Mangani," who in turn refer to gorillas as "Bulgani"[[/note]] lead by the savage Kerchak goes to explore the Clayton's tree home shortly after John's death. The female ape, Kala, finds the young Lord Greystoke and adopts him, naming him "Tarzan", meaning "white skin".

Kala raises Tarzan among the apes and he grows up as a creature of the jungle, fighting lions/leopards,[[note]]In the original edition, Tarzan encounters lions in the African jungle, which was later retconned to leopards.[[/note]] and having many unseen encounters with the natives. Tarzan finds his old cabin and teaches himself how to read over the course of a decade. One day a group of foreigners become stranded in the jungle by boat as well, one of them being his cousin William Cecil Clayton, and another being an American girl named Jane Porter. And [[ItWasHisSled we all know how that turns out]].

''Tarzan of the Apes'' was published by Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs in 1912[[note]]In a magazine. The novel was published in 1914[[/note]] and takes place in roughly the same time period. It is the first of his ''Literature/{{Tarzan}}'' series, which spans over two dozen published books, most of which are now in the public domain.[[note]]In the United States at least. It's still in copyright in Europe.]] Can be read [[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/78 here]].

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6th Dec '12 7:53:23 AM Whitewings

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6th Dec '12 7:53:08 AM Whitewings

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