Tarzan: The Greystoke Legacy

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Tarzan: The Greystoke Legacy
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Author Andy Briggs
Country
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
LanguageEnglish
Series Tarzan series
Genre Adventure novel
Publisher
Publication date
  • 2011 (United Kingdom)
  • 2012 (United States)
Media typePrint (trade paper)
Kindle (Amazon.uk, Amazon.com)
Pages283
ISBN 978-0-571-27238-9 (UK)
978-1-4532-7107-0 (US)
Preceded by' The Adventures of Tarzan (2006) 
Followed by'Tarzan: The Jungle Warrior (2012) 

Tarzan: The Greystoke Legacy is a 2011 young adult novel by Andy Briggs that reboots the Tarzan book series to the present day. [1] The novel was published in the United Kingdom by Faber and Faber, and in the United States by Open Road Media. It has also been distributed in Canada. [2]

Contents

Background

The novel is set in the present day Democratic Republic of the Congo. Tarzan is around the age of 18, and can speak some English due to time he spent with the now-deceased D'Arnot (a French UN Peacekeeper). [3] Jane Porter is a teenage girl in the jungle with her father Archibald "Archie", who had to abandon his medical practice after his wife's gambling and debts to loan sharks broke up the family. Archie hopes that the profits from illegal logging will allow him to pay off the debt, enabling him to return to America with Jane. [4]

The third main character is Robbie, a boy the same age as Jane, who ran away from America because he believes he is wanted for murdering the man who killed Robbie's sister.

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References

  1. Flood, Alison (30 June 2010). "Tarzan set to swing into 21st century with new series of novels". The Guardian .
  2. Tarzan: The Greystoke Legacy. ASIN   057127238X.
  3. Video Interview.
  4. "Video Interview". Archived from the original on 24 March 2016. Retrieved 27 June 2012.
  5. Tarzan Official Worldwide Launch
Preceded by Tarzan series
The Greystoke Legacy
Succeeded by
Tarzan: The Jungle Warrior (2012)