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What if the jungle gives way to a hidden world where ancient Rome still rules daily life?
In Tarzan and the Lost Empire, Edgar Rice Burroughs sends his jungle hero into an isolated world in the heart of Africa. Here, the ancient Roman past survives into the modern age. Tarzan leaves familiar ground behind and faces a place where strength and survival meet the law of empire.
An English lord raised by apes, Tarzan combines animal strength with an educated mind. He lives by instinct and skill, but this hidden society presents another way of life. Short chapters and moments of danger drive the adventure forward, as the freedom of the wild meets a world shaped by ancient Rome.
What you’ll discover
- A Roman world apart Enter an isolated place where the ancient Roman past still shapes everyday life.
- Strength joined with intelligence Follow a hero whose animal strength works alongside the mind of an educated man.
- Freedom against imperial law Explore the clash between survival by instinct and a life governed by empire.
- Danger at every turn Feel the pull of short chapters that tend to leave Tarzan facing danger.
- The lure of discovery Leave the familiar jungle for a hidden world full of danger and wonder.
Who will love it
Readers who love lost worlds, gladiator games and daring rescues will find all three here. It also suits anyone curious about ancient Rome, or fond of clever escapes, loyal friends and a brave little monkey.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A father asks Tarzan for help
- Erich climbs alone into the unknown
- Tarzan falls and is taken prisoner
- A Rome that never ended
- Tarzan stands before the emperor
- Hidden in Festivitas's house, then betrayed
- Chains, news and a bold plan
- The games begin in the Colosseum
- What the story is about
Who’s who
- TarzanThe ape-man of the African jungle, who searches the Wiramwazi Mountains for a friend's missing son and will not accept chains or cages.
- NkimaTarzan's small, boastful and fearful monkey, who is certain everything wants to eat him yet follows his master over mountains.
- Erich von HarbenA young archaeologist and mountain climber who wants to find the Lost Tribe of the Wiramwazi and discovers a living Rome.
- GabulaErich's loyal servant, a Batoro, who comes back to follow his master into the canyon despite his terror of spirits.
- Maximus PraeclarusA young patrician officer in Castra Sanguinarius who wants to marry Dilecta and who hides Tarzan from the Emperor.
- DilectaDaughter of the senator Dion Splendidus, brave and proud, who refuses to marry the Emperor's son Fastus.
- FavoniaDaughter of Septimus Favonius of Castrum Mare, who falls in love with the stranger and is pursued by Fulvus Fupus.
- Cassius HastaThe popular nephew of the Emperor of the East, betrayed by his uncle and desperate to return home.
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Tarzan und das Verlorene Reich
by Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1928
Tarzan hunts for a missing scholar and finds a hidden canyon where Rome still lives and the arena sand is wet.
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What if Rome never fell? Deep in the African mountains, a hidden canyon holds two Roman cities, each with its own emperor and its own bitter quarrels.
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A father asks Tarzan for help
Tarzan is camped in the jungle with Muviro and twenty Waziri warriors when a bearded white man walks in. He is Doctor von Harben, a mission doctor Tarzan knows. The doctor is deeply worried.
His son Erich is a young archaeologist and a skilled climber. Erich went to find the Lost Tribe of the Wiramwazi Mountains, a white people the locals call ghosts. Some of his men have crept home and will not talk.
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What is Tarzan and the Lost Empire about?
Tarzan goes into the Wiramwazi Mountains to find a missing young scholar, Erich von Harben. He finds a hidden canyon where descendants of a Roman cohort still live, with two rival cities, two emperors and a bloody arena.
Who is Nkima in the Tarzan books?
Nkima is Tarzan's small monkey companion. He is vain, nervous and always sure that something wants to eat him, yet he stays loyal and follows Tarzan through danger, bringing humor and surprising courage to the story.
Is Tarzan and the Lost Empire based on a true story?
No. Burroughs invented the story, though it plays with the old legend of lost white tribes in Africa. It is a work of adventure fiction, written in the early twentieth century.
The author
Edgar Rice Burroughs
1875–1950 · American adventure novelist
Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American writer born in Chicago in 1875. He wrote novels about Tarzan and novels set on Mars. His first Mars story appeared in 1912 and became the book A Princess of Mars in 1917. He later lived in California and died in Encino in 1950.
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