The Man Who Met Tarzan
The Man Who Met Tarzan

Author: Philip Jose Farmer

Publisher:

Published: 2021-11

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9781945427237

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Collected here for the first time in print, this book presents the major writings on the Lord of the Jungle by famed Tarzan scholar, and Science Fiction Grand Master, Philip José Farmer. Included are many articles, letters, and prose pieces written over many decades of scholarship by the man who not only wrote Tarzan's biography but was privileged to have edited some of the memoirs written by Lord Greystoke himself. Grouped in a way that allows the reader to explore different aspects of Farmer's lifelong fascination and investigations, the collection culminates in an actual interview with Tarzan himself. This is the definitive collection, showcasing Farmer's love, admiration, and knowledge of Lord Greystoke, the man we all know as Tarzan of the Apes. Included are a previously unpublished article, a recently uncovered short additional piece of Tarzan's autobiography, and, perhaps of most interest, Farmer's draft notes detailing his preparation for the historic interview, as well as some key annotations he made in the immediate aftermath of the meeting. With the evidence presented here, who could doubt that Tarzan is real and that Farmer was able to track him down.

Tarzan the Magnificent
Tarzan the Magnificent

Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Publisher: Phoemixx Classics Ebooks

Published: 2021-09-27

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 3985519153

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Tarzan the Magnificent Edgar Rice Burroughs - The bones of a dead man, a black runner still clutching a cleft stick containing a message...Tarzan, mighty man of the forest, finds it and learns of the captivity of a white man and his beautiful daughter. Courageously going to their rescue, Tarzan finds they are in the hands of the Kaji, a mysterious tribe of warrior women who will mate only with white men. Thus begins Tarzan's most fantastic adventure, one that will keep you on the edge of your seat in excitement. Tarzan encounters a lost race with uncanny mental powers, after which he revisits the lost cities of Cathne and Athne, previously encountered in the earlier novel Tarzan and the City of Gold. As usual, he is backed up by Chief Muviro and his faithful Waziri warriors.

Tarzan: The Centennial Celebration
Tarzan: The Centennial Celebration

Author: Scott Tracy Griffin

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2012-11-20

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1781161690

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Celebrating one hundred years of Tarzan, Titan Books presents the only official commemorative illustrated history of this worldwide phenomenon. To celebrate the Lord of the Jungle's 100th birthday, internationally-acclaimed Edgar Rice Burroughs expert Scott Tracy Griffin presents the ultimate review of a century of Tarzan. Lavishly illustrated and with fascinating insight into every element of Burroughs' extraordinary legacy - from his first writings to the latest stage musical - this is a visual treasure trove of classic comic strip, cover art, movie stills, and rare ephemera. From the first publication of the smash hit Tarzan of the Apes, Burroughs' ape man captured the hearts and the imaginations of adults and children across the globe, whether by written word, moving image, comic strip or radio. Each of the 24 original novels and the many varied appearances on stage, screen and in print receive a detailed commentary, illustrated with some of the most evocative and beautiful artworks, illustrations and photographs, many rarely seen in print before. With features on Korak, Jane, Tantor and Cheetah, plus their innumerable friends, foes and exotic adventures, this is an amazing collection of all things Tarzan and a vital addition to any Tarzan-lover's library.

Tarzan, My Father
Tarzan, My Father

Author: Johnny Weissmuller

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 2002-10-01

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1554905354

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The son of the Olympic swimmer who became a Hollywood star reveals the real story of his famous father’s life. Johnny Weissmuller’s name has become synonymous with Tarzan—the role he played in the 1930s and ’40s to the delight of millions. Many don’t know that he also earned five Olympic gold medals for swimming before his renowned acting career—or that he had five marriages. This authoritative biography of the first Tarzan, written by his only son, offers an intimate look at Weissmuller’s early life, middle years, and later decline, covering his experiences from swimming training and Olympic triumphs to failed marriages, phenomenal stardom, and a subsequent career as Jungle Jim. A sensitive yet unsentimental portrayal of the man who was Tarzan to movie fans around the world, Tarzan, My Father includes interviews with his father’s celebrity friends and former wives, recollections of conversations with his father over the years, and family stories involving Hollywood stars such as Humphrey Bogart.

Tarzan and the Ant-Men (Serapis Classics)
Tarzan and the Ant-Men (Serapis Classics)

Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Publisher: Serapis Classics

Published: 2017-10-19

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 3962559744

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Tarzan, the king of the jungle, enters an isolated country called Minuni, inhabited by a people four times smaller than himself, the Minunians, who live in magnificent city-states which frequently wage war against each other. Tarzan befriends the king, Adendrohahkis, and the prince, Komodoflorensal, of one such city-state, called Trohanadalmakus, and joins them in war against the onslaught of the army of Veltopismakus, their warlike neighbours.

Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man
Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man

Author: John F. Kasson

Publisher: Hill and Wang

Published: 2002-07-02

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 1429930039

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A remarkable new work from one of our premier historians In his exciting new book, John F. Kasson examines the signs of crisis in American life a century ago, signs that new forces of modernity were affecting men's sense of who and what they really were. When the Prussian-born Eugene Sandow, an international vaudeville star and bodybuilder, toured the United States in the 1890s, Florenz Ziegfeld cannily presented him as the "Perfect Man," representing both an ancient ideal of manhood and a modern commodity extolling self-development and self-fulfillment. Then, when Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan swung down a vine into the public eye in 1912, the fantasy of a perfect white Anglo-Saxon male was taken further, escaping the confines of civilization but reasserting its values, beating his chest and bellowing his triumph to the world. With Harry Houdini, the dream of escape was literally embodied in spectacular performances in which he triumphed over every kind of threat to masculine integrity -- bondage, imprisonment, insanity, and death. Kasson's liberally illustrated and persuasively argued study analyzes the themes linking these figures and places them in their rich historical and cultural context. Concern with the white male body -- with exhibiting it and with the perils to it --reached a climax in World War I, he suggests, and continues with us today.

Brother Men
Brother Men

Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2005-04-13

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 0822386461

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Brother Men is the first published collection of private letters of Edgar Rice Burroughs, the phenomenally successful author of adventure, fantasy, and science fiction tales, including the Tarzan series. The correspondence presented here is Burroughs’s decades-long exchange with Herbert T. Weston, the maternal great-grandfather of this volume’s editor, Matt Cohen. The trove of correspondence Cohen discovered unexpectedly during a visit home includes hundreds of items—letters, photographs, telegrams, postcards, and illustrations—spanning from 1903 to 1945. Since Weston kept carbon copies of his own letters, the material documents a lifelong friendship that had begun in the 1890s, when the two men met in military school. In these letters, Burroughs and Weston discuss their experiences of family, work, war, disease and health, sports, and new technology over a period spanning two world wars, the Great Depression, and widespread political change. Their exchanges provide a window into the personal writings of the legendary creator of Tarzan and reveal Burroughs’s ideas about race, nation, and what it meant to be a man in early-twentieth-century America. The Burroughs-Weston letters trace a fascinating personal and business relationship that evolved as the two men and their wives embarked on joint capital ventures, traveled frequently, and navigated the difficult waters of child-rearing, divorce, and aging. Brother Men includes never-before-published images, annotations, and a critical introduction in which Cohen explores the significance of the sustained, emotional male friendship evident in the letters. Rich with insights related to visual culture and media technologies, consumerism, the history of the family, the history of authorship and readership, and the development of the West, these letters make it clear that Tarzan was only one small part of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s broad engagement with modern culture.

Tarzan and the Ant Men
Tarzan and the Ant Men

Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Publisher:

Published: 1924

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13:

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No man had ever penetrated the Great Thorn Forest until Tarzan of the Apes crashed his plane behind it on his first solo flight. Within lay a beautiful country. But in it lived the Alali, strange stone-age giants whose women regarded all men as less than slaves. And beyond the Alali lay the country of the Ant-Men little people only eighteen inches tall. There, in Trohanadalmakus, Tarzan was an honored guest until he was captured by the warriors of Veltopismakus in one of the ant-men's wars. They had their plans for the ape-man. By the advanced science of the little men, Tarzan was shrunk to their size and set to work as a quarry slave.