A review by abdiel47
Tarzan and the City of Gold by Edgar Rice Burroughs
4.0
Ever since Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle Tarzan has been playing a supporting role in his own series in a sequence of other people's one-off adventures. Tarzan and the City of Gold is a return to form and the best Tarzan novel since Tarzan and the Golden Lion. It's especially refreshing since the previous Tarzan novel, Tarzan Triumphant, was particularly bad.
The land of Cathne is vintage Burroughs, a place where lions live among men and the city is covered in gold. And where the people display the tanned hides of their slain enemies on the walls of their palaces. As always the ethics seem foreign to me as a modern reader which the book all the more exotic.
There's a long "false start" to the novel and the real plot doesn't reveal itself until about half way through.
The land of Cathne is vintage Burroughs, a place where lions live among men and the city is covered in gold. And where the people display the tanned hides of their slain enemies on the walls of their palaces. As always the ethics seem foreign to me as a modern reader which the book all the more exotic.
There's a long "false start" to the novel and the real plot doesn't reveal itself until about half way through.