Book description
In the forgotten city of Opar, the bloodied sacrificial altar of the
Flaming God stood above vaults piled high with the gold destined for
fabled, lost Atlantis. There La, the beautiful high priestess, still
dreamed of Tarzan, who had escaped her knife before. Around her, the
hideous priests vowed that he should never escape again. For now Tarzan
was returning, and they were waiting for him. Tarzan planned to avoid La
and the priests. But he could not avoid the earthquake that struck him
down in the vaults and left him without memory of his wife or home -
only with what memory he had had as a child among the savage apes who
reared him.
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875 - 1950)
was a prolific American author of the 'pulp' era. The son of a Civil
War veteran, he saw brief military service with the 7TH U. S. Cavalry
before he was diagnosed with a heart problem and discharged. After
working for five years in his father's business, Burroughs left for a
string of disparate and short-lived jobs, and was working as a pencil
sharpener wholesaler when he decided to try his hand at writing. He
found almost instant success when his story 'Under the Moons of Mars'
was serialised in All-Story Magazine in 1912, earning him the
then-princely sum of 0.
Burroughs went on to have tremendous success
as a writer, his wide-ranging imagination taking in other planets
(John Carter of Mars and Carson of Venus), a hollow earth
(Pellucidar), a lost world, westerns, historicals and adventure
stories. Although he wrote in many genres, Burroughs is best known for
his creation of the archetypal jungle hero, Tarzan. Edgar Rice
Burroughs died in 1950.
