BOOK REVIEW: The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs

 

This novel, the fourth of the series, follows the adventures of the son of the Lord of the Apes as he runs away to live in the same way as his father, with two exceptions. First, while his savage life is voluntary, he does not become the king of the beasts that his father did. Second, he finds himself guardian of a young girl that he saves from an abusive Arab and teaches the ways of the jungle. The adventures of these two young people make for a convoluted and entertaining story, though a little dated in its views of indigenous peoples, and written in a 19^th century prose that tends to be a little wordy. But it is a good read, all the same.