Tarzan Trilogy

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Tarzan Trilogy
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Cover of first edition
Author Thomas Zachek
Illustrator Douglas Klauba
Cover artist Joe Jusko
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Series The Wild Adventures of Tarzan
Genre Adventure short stories
Publisher Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.
Publication date
2016
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages380 pp.
ISBN 978-1-945462-05-4
Preceded by Tarzan on the Precipice  
Followed by Tarzan: The Greystoke Legacy Under Siege  

Tarzan Trilogy is a collection of original adventure novellas written by Thomas Zachek featuring Edgar Rice Burroughs's jungle hero Tarzan. It is the third volume in The Wild Adventures of Tarzan, a series of new works authorized, licensed and published by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. It was first published on December 14, 2016, in trade paperback, with a hardcover edition released the next day. [1]

The book includes three novellas set in the area of Point Station, an English outpost near the Waziri lands of the (fictional) Bolongo River basin during the period 1936–1939, in the run-up to World War II, each involving interlopers intruding on Tazan's African domain, and how he deals with them. The first concerns agents of a pharmaceutical company seeking resources assumed to prolong life, the second intertribal warfare involving archaeologists, and the third Nazi invaders.

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