{"id":184,"date":"2012-06-20T11:25:04","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T17:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recoverings.com\/blog\/?p=184"},"modified":"2015-12-10T10:29:37","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T17:29:37","slug":"tarzan-jad-guru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoverings.com\/blog\/tarzan-jad-guru\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarzan-jad-guru"},"content":{"rendered":"

June 20, 1921<\/strong>\u2014 A. C. McClurg & Co. publishes TARZAN THE TERRIBLE, the eighth book in the Tarzan saga.<\/p>\n

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Cover for the A.C. McClurg edition of TARZAN THE TERRIBLE by J. Allen St. John<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

ONE OF THE BEST in the series, this story takes Tarzan into the hidden land of Pal-ul-don, searching for Jane, who has been kidnapped by a German officer during the East Africa campaign of 1914. Pal-ul-don is a world of enormous reptiles called gryfs and peopled by the primitive, hairy Tor-o-don, the black, cave-dwelling Waz-don and the white, hairless, priest-ridden Ho-don. Because all races have opposable big toes and prehensile tails, Burroughs termed them “pithecanthropus” (ape-man) since he was speculating a transitional form between the great apes and modern man. The Waz-don and Ho-don, though possessing different techno-cultures, are intellectually equal speaking the same language but having differing art and religions.<\/p>\n

Burroughs, in the person of Tarzan, reflects on the the contrast between nature and degenerated civilization while meditating on the grandeur of the hidden and unspoiled land:<\/p>\n

“What a paradise! And some day civilized man would come and \u2014 spoil it! Ruthless axes would raze that age-old wood; black, sticky smoke would rise from ugly chimneys against that azure sky; grimy little boats with wheels behind or upon either side would churn the mud from the bottom of Jad-in-lul, turning its blue waters to a dirty brown; hideous piers would project into the lake from squalid buildings of corrugated iron.\u2026”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tarzan also takes on the role of culture hero, becoming Tarzan-jad-guru as he destroys the age-old Ho-don religion of sun-worship and human sacrifice, bringing the Waz-don and the Ho-don into a more peaceful co-existence. Jane is shown as an extremely self-sufficient woman, acting on the knowledge of woodcraft she has learned from her life with Tarzan by making a shelter, fire, a spear and killing an antelope for sustenance.<\/p>\n

This is also the book that introduces “The Great Korak Time Discrepency.” But that is another story for another time.<\/p>\n

J. Allen St. John’s illustrations in this book are some of his best, pointing to the 20s as a high-point of his talent. There are nine beautiful black and white ink wash paintings in the book and a full color rendering of the frontispiece for the dust jacket. Half of these paintings are lost, apparently, with only five of the nine interiors known to be in private collections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

June 20, 1921\u2014 A. C. McClurg & Co. publishes TARZAN THE TERRIBLE, the eighth book in the Tarzan saga. ONE OF THE BEST in the series, this story takes Tarzan into the hidden land of Pal-ul-don, searching for Jane, who has been kidnapped by a German officer during the East Africa campaign of 1914. Pal-ul-don … Continue reading “Tarzan-jad-guru”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-and-characters","category-book-publication"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3uw6J-2Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/recoverings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"https:\/\/recoverings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoverings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoverings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}