Book description
The transformation of a highly civilized, blue-blooded young Bostonian
into the savage bone-and-muscle chief of a band of shaggy cavemen is a
challenge worthy of the talents of the man who created Tarzan of the
Apes.
In THE CAVE GIRL, Edgar Rice Burroughs tells, in a thrill-after-thrill
novel, the story of Waldo Smith-Jones and how his desperate effort to
survive on a lost island of primitive men and primitive beasts. How
Waldo was given the name of Thandar, how he had won the hand of the cave
princess Nadara, and how he overcame the most desperate of odds make
this a real Tarzan-type epic. Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875 - 1950)
Edgar Rice Burroughs 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.
