The Cave Man by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fiction, Fantasy, Action & Adventure
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Scion of a wealthy family, the effete Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones has been transformed . . . no thanks to the proper training and education due Boston's finest -- but due to sheer, desperate necessity: for he must survive as a castaway! Surrounded by brutish troglodytes, he discovers resources and strengths he never knew he possessed -- as well as love, with the strangely bewitching Nadara. Rising to the leadership of her primitive tribe, he makes plans for a return to civilization . . . a return, he soon learns, fraught with more peril than the jungle!
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) is the creator of Tarzan, one of the most popular fictional characters of all time, and John Carter, hero of the Barsoom science fiction series. Burroughs was a prolific author, writing almost 70 books before his death in 1950, and was one of the first authors to popularize a character across multiple media, as he did with Tarzan’s appearance in comic strips, movies, and merchandise. Residing in Hawaii at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941, Burroughs was drawn into the Second World War and became one of the oldest war correspondents at the time. Edgar Rice Burroughs’s popularity continues to be memorialized through the community of Tarzana, California, which is named after the ranch he owned in the area, and through the Burrough crater on Mars, which was named in his honour.
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