Edgar Rice Burroughs, man of mystery, who created fiction to reveal his passion for the truth about lost civilizations, Atlantis, hollow earth, and more. Though most may not consider Tarzan stories as science fiction, this one truly is, since Burroughs plants the seeds of forgotten civilizations in the context of his novel.
Excerpt
"The entire affair is shrouded in mystery," said
D'Arnot. "I have it on the best of authority that neither
the police nor the special agents of the general staff
have the faintest conception of how it was accomplished.
All they know, all that anyone knows, is that
Nikolas Rokoff has escaped."
John Clayton, Lord Greystoke--he who had been
"Tarzan of the Apes"--sat in silence in the apartments
of his friend, Lieutenant Paul D'Arnot, in Paris, gazing
meditatively at the toe of his immaculate boot.
His mind revolved many memories, recalled by the
escape of his arch-enemy from the French military
prison to which he had been sentenced for life upon
the testimony of the ape-man.
He thought of the lengths to which Rokoff had once
gone to compass his death, and he realized that what
the man had already done would doubtless be as
nothing by comparison with what he would wish and
plot to do now that he was again free.
CONTENTS
2 Marooned
3 Beasts at Bay
4 Sheeta
5 Mugambi
6 A Hideous Crew
7 Betrayed
8 The Dance of Death
9 Chivalry or Villainy
10 The Swede
11 Tambudza
12 A Black Scoundrel
13 Escape
14 Alone in the Jungle
15 Down the Ugambi
16 In the Darkness of the Night
17 On the Deck of the "Kincaid"
18 Paulvitch Plots Revenge
19 The Last of the "Kincaid"
20 Jungle Island Again
21 The Law of the Jungle
Softcover, 5¼" x 8¼", 230+ pages
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