There, Tarzan loses his memory after being struck on the head by a falling rock in the treasure room during an earthquake. While Atlantis itself sank beneath the waves thousands of years ago, the workers of Opar continued to mine all of the gold, which means there is a rather huge stockpile but which is now lost to the memory of the Oparians and only Tarzan knows its secret location.Ī greedy, outlawed Belgian army officer, Albert Werper, in the employ of a criminal Arab, secretly follows Tarzan to Opar. Tarzan returns to Opar, the source of the gold where a lost colony of fabled Atlantis is located, in order to make good on some financial reverses he has recently suffered. It first appeared in the November and December issues of All-Story Cavalier Weekly in 1916, and the first book publication was by McClurg in 1918. Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the fifth in his series of twenty-four books about the title character Tarzan. If you are looking for a pure adventure story, this is still a great one.Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar at Wikisource Stranded on Amtor after his spaceship crashes, astronaut Carson Napier is swept into a world where revolution is ripe, the love of a princess carries a dear price, and death can come as easily from the blade of a sword as from the ray of a futuristic gun. In Amtor, cities of immortal beings flourish in giant trees reaching thousands of feet into the sky ferocious beasts stalk the wilderness below rare flashes of sunlight precipitate devastating storms and the inhabitants believe their world is saucer-shaped with a fiery center and an icy rim. Landing there he finds that the clouds conceal a wondrous secret: the strikingly beautiful yet deadly world of Amtor. Our hero Carson accidentally lands on the mysterious, cloud-covered planet of Venus (he was shooting for Mars, believing Venus inhospitable to all life). This is the first book in what is called the Venus series and starts it off with tons of action and excitement.
Download cover art Download CD case insert Pirates of VenusĮdgar Rice Burroughs, of Tarzan fame, wrote many great adventure stories that were serialized in the magazines of t he 1930s.
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