Edgar Rice Burroughs

Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar Illustrated Edgar Rice Burroughs

Here Tarzan returns to Opar, the source of the gold for lost Atlantis. Ages ago Atlantis sunk beneath the waves. Tarzan, returning to Opar for more gold, suffers a nasty bump on the head during an earthquake, gets amnesia and reverts to his jungle past. This is not good for Jane who, in the meantime has been abducted once again and is waiting to be rescued by her forest-god. Mix in more man-eating lions, rites of human sacrifice, apes running around disguised as arab traders, shadowy figures slipping into tents with daggers in the night, etc, and you have an enjoyable if somewhat repetitive story. The author seems to have entered into a time-warp by this book - Jane is described as a 'young girl' despite the fact that the previous book ended with the marriage of her adult son; and La, the beautiful priestess of Opar, who fell for Tarzan back in The Return of Tarzan, has remained resolutely single all this time, waiting and hoping for his return.