Tarzan of the Apes

A child stranded in the African jungle. An ape mother who loves him. A boy who grows up believing he is one of the 'people' - until he sees his reflection in a pool and knows he is different. This is the audacious premise that launched one of fiction's most enduring icons. When John Clayton is abandoned in the jungles of Africa as an infant, he is rescued and raised by Mangani, a female ape who treats him as her own. Tarzan grows up navigating a brutal world of ape politics, hunting with primitive weapons, and believing himself to be like his adoptive family. But his human intellect sets him apart, and when white explorers discover this 'wild man' with his superhuman strength, Tarzan begins to question everything he knows about himself. Then Jane arrives - a beautiful American girl shipwrecked on the coast - and Tarzan faces his greatest challenge yet: choosing between the jungle that made him and the civilization that calls to his blood. Burroughs delivers a pulp adventure that transcends its genre, asking what we really are beneath the accident of birth.