It was true that Tarzan and Tantor were the best of friends, and that
Tarzan never yet had tasted of the flesh of the elephant; but the
Gomangani evidently had slain one, and as they were eating of the flesh
of their kill, Tarzan was assailed by no doubts as to the ethics of his
doing likewise, should he have the opportunity. Had he known that the
elephant had died of sickness several days before the blacks discovered
the carcass, he might not have been so keen to partake of the feast, for
Tarzan of the Apes was no carrion-eater. Hunger, however, may blunt the
most epicurean taste, and Tarzan was not exactly an epicure. Edgar Rice
Burroughs created one of the most iconic figures in American pop
culture, Tarzan of the Apes, and it is impossible to overstate his
influence on entire genres of popular literature in the decades after
his enormously winning pulp novels stormed the public's imagination.
Jungle Tales of Tarzan, first published in 1919, is the sixth book of
Burroughs' tales of the ape-man. This collection of short stories
explores the life of the young Tarzan, his adventurous boyhood and teen
years among the great apes and other wild creatures that were his only
family. American novelist EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS (1875-1950) wrote dozens
of adventure, crime, and science fiction novels that are still beloved
today, including Tarzan of the Apes (1912), At the Earth's Core (1914),
A Princess of Mars (1917), The Land That Time Forgot (1924), and Pirates
of Venus (1934). He is reputed to have been reading a comic book when he
died.
