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In a message dated 6/16/2005 4:26:56 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
fetteroll@... writes:

But actually he couldn't speak English. Jane was finding these
beautiful elegantly worded but mysterious written messages left on
trees in the jungle. (If my 30 year old memory is serving me.) But she
knew they couldn't be coming from the equally mysterious but
non-speaking wild man.


YOU'RE RIGHT!
He learned to read and write but not to speak.

My favorite parts of the book were his childhood. I cried and cried about
the dead ape-baby. I think I was 12 when I read that, and I was really
fascinated by his find of his parents' place (without his having any idea they were
his parents, I think). That is one great passage, and if anyone here missed
it, it's Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

HEY, I was going to to go and give a link and say "You can get it on Amazon
for a buck fifty" or something, but it's online in a few places!

_http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/People/rgs/tarz-table.htm_
(http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/People/rgs/tarz-table.htm)

There's one.
It's dated, it's fiction, it's England-centric, and just like Shogun it
starts with too much ship-on-ocean and not enough foreign-land, but for its time
(1914) it was like bigtime sci-fi/fantasy.

Oh. The cheapest listed on Amazon is not $1.50. It's $0.01. A penny
(plus shipping <g>).
That's pretty funny! The next more expensive one is 11 cents. I started to
say Burroughs might be rolling over in his grave, but in 1914 11 cents
American was probably pretty good for a pulp novel. <bwg>

Nope. It was $1.50 new in the U.S. Here they have the history of the
publication and some of the early cover art. VERY cool art:
_http://www.tarzan.com/bib/0483.html_ (http://www.tarzan.com/bib/0483.html)
I think that red one, first left on third row on the bottom display of cover
art was the one I read. Not positive, but that one looks really familiar.

One thing leads to another if you follow those trails...

Sandra



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