{"product_id":"2940012859242","title":"Tarzan of the Apes","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      I  Out to Sea\u003cbr\u003e     II  The Savage Home\u003cbr\u003e    III  Life and Death\u003cbr\u003e     IV  The Apes\u003cbr\u003e      V  The White Ape\u003cbr\u003e     VI  Jungle Battles\u003cbr\u003e    VII  The Light of Knowledge\u003cbr\u003e   VIII  The Tree-top Hunter\u003cbr\u003e     IX  Man and Man\u003cbr\u003e      X  The Fear-Phantom\u003cbr\u003e     XI  \"King of the Apes\"\u003cbr\u003e    XII  Man's Reason\u003cbr\u003e   XIII  His Own Kind\u003cbr\u003e    XIV  At the Mercy of the Jungle\u003cbr\u003e     XV  The Forest God\u003cbr\u003e    XVI  \"Most Remarkable\"\u003cbr\u003e   XVII  Burials\u003cbr\u003e  XVIII  The Jungle Toll\u003cbr\u003e    XIX  The Call of the Primitive\u003cbr\u003e     XX  Heredity\u003cbr\u003e    XXI  The Village of Torture\u003cbr\u003e   XXII  The Search Party\u003cbr\u003e  XXIII  Brother Men\u003cbr\u003e   XXIV  Lost Treasure\u003cbr\u003e    XXV  The Outpost of the World\u003cbr\u003e   XXVI  The Height of Civilization\u003cbr\u003e  XXVII  The Giant Again\u003cbr\u003e XXVIII  Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOut to Sea\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to\u003cbr\u003eany other.  I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon\u003cbr\u003ethe narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity\u003cbr\u003eduring the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen my convivial host discovered that he had told me so much, and that\u003cbr\u003eI was prone to doubtfulness, his foolish pride assumed the task the old\u003cbr\u003evintage had commenced, and so he unearthed written evidence in the form\u003cbr\u003eof musty manuscript, and dry official records of the British Colonial\u003cbr\u003eOffice to support many of the salient features of his remarkable\u003cbr\u003enarrative.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI do not say the story is true, for I did not witness the happenings\u003cbr\u003ewhich it portrays, but the fact that in the telling of it to you I have\u003cbr\u003etaken fictitious names for the principal characters quite sufficiently\u003cbr\u003eevidences the sincerity of my own belief that it MAY be true.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe yellow, mildewed pages of the diary of a man long dead, and the\u003cbr\u003erecords of the Colonial Office dovetail perfectly with the narrative of\u003cbr\u003emy convivial host, and so I give you the story as I painstakingly\u003cbr\u003epieced it out from these several various agencies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you do not find it credible you will at least be as one with me in\u003cbr\u003eacknowledging that it is unique, remarkable, and interesting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the records of the Colonial Office and from the dead man's diary\u003cbr\u003ewe learn that a certain young English nobleman, whom we shall call John\u003cbr\u003eClayton, Lord Greystoke, was commissioned to make a peculiarly delicate\u003cbr\u003einvestigation of conditions in a British West Coast African Colony from\u003cbr\u003ewhose simple native inhabitants another European power was known to be\u003cbr\u003erecruiting soldiers for its native army, which it used solely for the\u003cbr\u003eforcible collection of rubber and ivory from the savage tribes along\u003cbr\u003ethe Congo and the Aruwimi.  The natives of the British Colony\u003cbr\u003ecomplained that many of their young men were enticed away through the\u003cbr\u003emedium of fair and glowing promises, but that few if any ever returned\u003cbr\u003eto their families.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Englishmen in Africa went even further, saying that these poor\u003cbr\u003eblacks were held in virtual slavery, since after their terms of\u003cbr\u003eenlistment expired their ignorance was imposed upon by their white\u003cbr\u003eofficers, and they were told that they had yet several years to serve.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd so the Colonial Office appointed John Clayton to a new post in\u003cbr\u003eBritish West Africa, but his confidential instructions centered on a\u003cbr\u003ethorough investigation of the unfair treatment of black British\u003cbr\u003esubjects by the officers of a friendly European power.  Why he was\u003cbr\u003esent, is, however, of little moment to this story, for he never made an\u003cbr\u003einvestigation, nor, in fact, did he ever reach his destination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClayton was the type of Englishman that one likes best to associate\u003cbr\u003ewith the noblest monuments of historic achievement upon a thousand\u003cbr\u003evictorious battlefields--a strong, virile man--mentally, morally, and\u003cbr\u003ephysically.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn stature he was above the average height; his eyes were gray, his\u003cbr\u003efeatures regular and strong; his carriage that of perfect, robust\u003cbr\u003ehealth influenced by his years of army training.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePolitical ambition had caused him to seek transference from the army to\u003cbr\u003ethe Colonial Office and so we find him, still young, entrusted with a\u003cbr\u003edelicate and important commission in the service of the Queen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen he received this appointment he was both elated and appalled.  The\u003cbr\u003epreferment seemed to him in the nature of a well-merited reward for\u003cbr\u003epainstaking and intelligent service, and as a stepping stone to posts\u003cbr\u003eof greater importance and responsibility; but, on the other hand, he\u003cbr\u003ehad been married to the Hon. Alice Rutherford for scarce a three\u003cbr\u003emonths, and it was the thought of taking this fair young girl into the\u003cbr\u003edangers and isolation of tropical Africa that appalled him.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47078963970288,"sku":"2940012859242","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012859242_p0.jpg?v=1763573158","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012859242","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}