Tarzan and the Lost Empire

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This Ace edition follows the text of the first hard-cover book edition, originally published in 1929.

Cover art and title page illustration by Frank Frazetta.

Edgar Rice Burroughs books available in Ace editions:

F-156 AT THE EARTH'S CORE F-157 THE MOON MAID F-158 PELLUCIDAR F-159 THE MOON MEN F-168 THUVIA, MAID OF MARS

The disappearance of a noted archaeologist hunting the secret of the Lost Tribe of the Wiramwazi Mountains was a signal to the one man who could penetrate Africa's deepest interior—Tarzan of the Apes. For only Tarzan, the white man who had been raised by the anthropoid apes, could understand the ways of the jungle and its beasts perfectly enough to speed to the scientist's rescue.

But this time, in addition to savage tribes and vicious beasts, Tarzan uncovered a strange lost land—twin cities of Roman soldiery, outposts of a ruthless empire that had fallen fifteen hundred years before.

Tarzan's desperate struggle between ancient intrigues and modern schemers, against deadly gladiators and enraged lions, is Edgar Rice Burroughs at his very best.

Everyone generally agrees that he's the strong man that lives in the jungle and can talk with his animal friends. But from there on, the definitions will vary. Some will swear that he lives in a tree house and is usually saying, "Me Tarzan, you Jane," while others will tell you that he has a son named Boy and a monkey called Cheetah.