Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1972. Reprint. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 0x0x0. Reprint (no edition stated on copyright page). Jacket lightly rubbed, otherwise an excellent copy. 1972 Hard Cover. xx, 312 pp. A supplement to the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, by the popular science fiction writer who also contributed a novel to the series (The Dark Heart of Time, 1999). The work traces the life of Tarzan, and also provides a selected bibliography, detailed index, and other interesting information about the famous character. Through the tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs, generations of readers have thrilled to the adventures of Lord Greystoke (aka John Clayton, but better known as Tarzan of the Apes). In this biography Philip Jose Farmer pieces together the life of this fantastic man, correcting Burroughs’s errors and deliberate deceptions and tracing Tarzan's family tree back to other extraordinary figures, including Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes, the Scarlet Pimpernel, Doc Savage, Nero Wolfe, and Bulldog Drummond.Tarzan Alive offers the first chronological account of Tarzan's life, narrated in careful detail garnered from Burroughs's stories and other sources. From the ill-fated voyage that led to Greystoke's birth on the isolated African coast to his final adventures as a group captain in the RAF during World War II, Farmer constructs a comprehensive and authoritative account. Farmer's assertion that Tarzan was a real person has led him to craft a biography as well researched and compelling as that of any character from conventional history.