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Dust-jacket illustration by John Coleman Burroughs for Tarzan and the Foreign Legion |
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| Author(s) | Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| Illustrator | John Coleman Burroughs |
| Cover artist | John Coleman Burroughs |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Tarzan series |
| Genre(s) | Adventure novel |
| Publisher | Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. |
| Publication date | 1947 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 314 pp |
| ISBN | NA |
| Preceded by | Tarzan the Magnificent |
| Followed by | Tarzan and the Madman |
Tarzan and the Foreign Legion is a novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the twenty-second in his series of books about the title character Tarzan. The book, written June-September 1944 while Burroughs was living in Honolulu and published in 1947, was the last new work by Burroughs to be published during his life (Llana of Gathol, the tenth book in the Barsoom series, was published in 1948, but it was a collection of four stories that were originally published in Amazing Stories in 1941).[1] The novel is set during World War II. The term "foreign legion" does not refer to the French Foreign Legion, but is the name given in the book to a small international force (including Tarzan) fighting the Japanese.
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While serving in the R.A.F. under his civilian name of John Clayton, Tarzan is shot down over the island of Sumatra in the Japanese-occupied Dutch East Indies. He uses his jungle survival skills to save his comrades in arms, and they fight the Japanese while seeking escape from enemy territory.
Tarzan also reveals to his companions how in his youth, after saving the life of a witch doctor, he was rewarded by treatment that gave him immortality.[2] According to Tarzan Alive, Philip José Farmer's study of the ape man's life and career, the incident related occurred in January 1912.[3]
The book has been adapted into comic form by Gold Key Comics in Tarzan nos. 192–193, dated December 1970 and January 1971.
The copyright for this story has expired in Australia, and thus now resides in the public domain there. The text is available via Project Gutenberg Australia.
| Preceded by Tarzan the Magnificent |
Tarzan series Tarzan and the Foreign Legion |
Succeeded by Tarzan and the Madman |