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Tarzan the Terrible is the eighth story in the 24-piece Tarzan series written by Burroughs. First published in series in Argosy All-Story Weekly in February and March, 1921, the serialization was followed by the publication in book form very soon, in June the same year.The previous story ended with Tarzan wandering in Africa, seeking to avenge the alleged death of Jane. At the beginning of this installment, he is still pursuing the tracks of his love and that is how he gets to Pal-ul-Don, a remote valley teeming with dinosaurs and also the home of two humanoid races, one of them hairless and white, the other black-skinned and hairy, at war with each other. Tarzan becomes friends with members of both tribes, then he is taken hostage, but his skills and his behavior impress his guards and earn him the name of Tarzan, the Terrible.However, this is hardly the last surprising turn in the story. It soon turns out that Jane is held captive in the same valley. Tarzan continues his quest to find her, but he encounters difficulties that even he finds impossible to solve – a new and unusual element in Tarzan stories – and he seems to be unable to rescue her beloved until their son, Korak comes to their rescue and saves both of them. Though Tarzan is determined to take revenge on his wife’s captors, the novel ends without the vengeance – an aspect of the plot that brought about a lot of criticism.Tarzan the Terrible stands out among all Tarzan stories by featuring the most complex and most elaborate lost civilizations in the entire series. Other than that, the story features the complexity and the eventfulness that readers are used to with all Tarzan stories, features that have made these novels so popular for so long.

Tarzan The Terrible N#8 In the previous novel, during the early days of World War I, Tarzan discovered that his wife Jane was not killed in a fire set by German troops, but was in fact alive. In this novel two months have gone by and Tarzan is continuing to search for Jane. He has tracked her to a hidden valley called Pal-ul-don, which means "Land of Men." In Pal-ul-don Tarzan finds a real Jurassic Park filled with dinosaurs, notably the savage Triceratops-like Gryfs, which unlike their prehistoric counterparts are predatory. The lost valley is also home to two different races of tailed human-looking creatures, the Ho-don (hairless and white skinned) and the Waz-don (hairy and black-skinned). Tarzan befriends Ta-den, a Ho-don warrior, and Om-at, the Waz-don chief of the tribe of Kor-ul-ja. In this new world he becomes a captive but so impresses his captors with his accomplishments and skills that they name him Tarzan-Jad-Guru (Tarzan the Terrible), which is the name of the novel.

Tarzan the Terrible is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the eighth in his series of books about the title character Tarzan. It was first published as a serial in the pulp magazine Argosy All-Story Weekly in the issues for February 12, 19, and 26 and March 5, 12, 19, and 26, 1921; the first book edition was published in June 1921 by A. C. McClurg. Its setting, Pal-ul-don, is one of the more thoroughly realized "lost civilizations" in Burroughs' Tarzan stories. The novel contains a map of the place as well as a glossary of its inhabitants' language.

In this novel two months have gone by and Tarzan is continuing to search for Jane. He has tracked her to a hidden valley called Pal-ul-don, which means ""Land of Men."" In Pal-ul-don Tarzan finds a real Jurassic Park filled with dinosaurs, notably the savage Triceratops-like Gryfs, which unlike their prehistoric counterparts are predatory. Jane is also being held captive in Pal-ul-don where she becomes a pawn in a religious power struggle. Tarzan continues to pursue the rescue of his beloved, going through an extended series of fights and escapes to do so. In the end success seems beyond even his ability to achieve.

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Lieutenant Obergatz had fled in terror from the seeking vengeance of Tarzan of the Apes. And with him, by force, he had taken Tarzan's beloved mate, Jane. Now the ape-man was following the faint spoor of their flight, into a region no man had ever penetrated. The trail led across seemingly impassable marshes into Pal-ul-don -- a savage land where primitive Waz-don and Ho-don fought fiercely, wielding knives with their long, prehensile tails -- and where mighty triceratops still survived from the dim dawn of time . . . And far behind, relentlessly pursuing, came Korak the Killer.