Tarzan: The Greystoke Legacy
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Tarzan: The Greystoke Legacy
is a 2011 Young-adult novel by Andy Briggs
that reboots the Tarzan book series
to the present day. The novel was published in the United Kingdom
by Faber and Faber
, and has been distributed in Canada.
. Tarzan is around 18, and can speak some English due to time he spent with the now-deceased D'Arnot (a French UN Peacekeeper).
Jane Porter
is a teenage girl in the jungle with her father Archibald "Archie", who had to abandon his medical practice after his wife's gambling and debts to loan sharks broke up the family. Archie hopes that the profits from illegal logging will allow him to pay off the debt, enabling him to return to America with Jane.
The third main character is Robbie, a boy the same age as Jane, who ran away from America because he believes he is wanted for murdering the man who killed Robbie's sister.
Tarzan: The Greystoke Legacy
Tarzan: The Greystoke Legacy is a 2011 Young-adult novel by Andy Briggs that reboots the Tarzan book series to the present day. The novel was published in the United Kingdom by Faber and Faber, and has been distributed in Canada.-Background:...
is a 2011 Young-adult novel by Andy Briggs
Andy Briggs
Andy Briggs is a British author and screenwriter. He created the Hero.com series and the Villain.net anti-series for Oxford University Publishing, which have now been published around the world...
that reboots the Tarzan book series
Tarzan (book series)
Tarzan is a series of twenty-four adventure novels written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, followed by four novels either co-written by Burroughs, or officially authorized by his estate...
to the present day. The novel was published in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
by Faber and Faber
Faber and Faber
Faber and Faber Limited, often abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in the UK, notable in particular for publishing a great deal of poetry and for its former editor T. S. Eliot. Faber has a rich tradition of publishing a wide range of fiction, non fiction, drama, film and music...
, and has been distributed in Canada.
Background
The novel is set in the present day Democratic Republic of the CongoDemocratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a state located in Central Africa. It is the second largest country in Africa by area and the eleventh largest in the world...
. Tarzan is around 18, and can speak some English due to time he spent with the now-deceased D'Arnot (a French UN Peacekeeper).
Jane Porter
Jane Porter (Tarzan)
Jane Porter is a major character in Edgar Rice Burroughs's series of Tarzan novels, and in adaptations of the saga to other media, particularly film.- In the novels :...
is a teenage girl in the jungle with her father Archibald "Archie", who had to abandon his medical practice after his wife's gambling and debts to loan sharks broke up the family. Archie hopes that the profits from illegal logging will allow him to pay off the debt, enabling him to return to America with Jane.
The third main character is Robbie, a boy the same age as Jane, who ran away from America because he believes he is wanted for murdering the man who killed Robbie's sister.