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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780803269217
ISBN: 0803269218
Label: Bison Books
Manufacturer: Bison Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 316
Publication Date: April 01, 2006
Publisher: Bison Books
Sales Rank: 589826
Studio: Bison Books
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Product Description:
Through the tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs, generations of readers have thrilled to the adventures of Lord Greystoke (aka John Clayton, but better known as Tarzan of the Apes). In this biography Philip José Farmer pieces together the life of this fantastic man, correcting Burroughs’s errors and deliberate deceptions and tracing Tarzan's family tree back to other extraordinary figures, including Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes, the Scarlet Pimpernel, Doc Savage, Nero Wolfe, and Bulldog Drummond. Tarzan Alive offers the first chronological account of Tarzan's life, narrated in careful detail garnered from Burroughs’s stories and other sources. From the ill-fated voyage that led to Greystoke's birth on the isolated African coast to his final adventures as a group captain in the RAF during World War II, Farmer constructs a comprehensive and authoritative account. Farmer’s assertion that Tarzan was a real person has led him to craft a biography as well researched and compelling as that of any character from conventional history. This definitive Bison Books edition also includes Farmer’s “Exclusive Interview with Lord Greystoke” as well as “Extracts from the Memoirs of ‘Lord Greystoke’” first anthologized in Mother Was a Lovely Beast.
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Great new edition of a terrific book. This Bison Books edition adds Farmer's "exclusive interview with Lord Greystoke (from Esquire) and "Extracts from the memoirs of "Lord Greystoke" (from "Mother Was A Lovely Beast"). The problem being, the editors placed these at the start of the book, instead of added as appendices, and I feel they slow the book down. Also, this edition does not include the Wold Newton family tree from earlier editions. Great cover art by "Jean-Paul Goude", also originally ... Read More
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This is great. Almost mind-boggling the effort that Farmer has put in, here. Try and find the men with grey eyes. :) G-8 became schizoid after a breakdown, becoming The Shadow and The Spider. That is just fabulous.
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Edgar Rice Burroughs put out 24 books on the adventures of Tarzan. I enjoyed most of these and would recommend them without a doubt. What we get here from Philip Jose Farmer is the 'biography' of Tarzan written as if he were an actual real person. The bio looks at ERB as a novelist given a 'based on actual events' type of writing with embellishments added when needed. PJF looks into the life of Tarzan and the novels letting you know what are 'true events of Tarzan's life' and what is 'completely made ... Read More
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I greatly enjoyed the tales of Tarzan as presented in Tarzan Alive. The problem I have is this... I haven't read the original source material. I thought the Definitive Biography would include a real biography, when instead it often just contrasts events with the original stories. Thus, it would have been helpful if I had read all the original stories before delving into Tarzan Alive. That being said, this book was a very good read, and I look forward to someone reprinting Phillip Jose Farmer's His Apocalyptic ... Read More
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Farmer's direct tribute to Edgar Rice Burroughs is a fictional biography of Tarzan. It is probably not going to be interesting to those who have never read one of Burroughs' Tarzan books, but those who have will find "Tarzan Alive" a treasure of entertainment. It is nice to see that this book has returned to print, being an important reader's guide to the most famous fictional character of the 20th century.
It would be very easy to dismiss the Tarzan books as simple entertainment saturated with ignorant ... Read More
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