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Tarzan & Jane

Edgar Rice Burroughs was a prolific writer and they wrote many accounts of Tarzan, the archetypal feral child. He first appears in a 1912 magazine publication but went on to appear in a book publication in 1914 and many subsequent works. In fact there were 23 sequels, far more than Star Wars. However the love story of Tarzan and Jane, makes them one of the most well-known couples in history. Call me sacrilegious if you will, but they may be as famous as Adam and Eve.

Apparently Tarzan is raised by apes after his marooned parents die somewhere off the west coast of Africa. He is a British Lord by birth, Lord Greystoke, and his real name is John Clayton. Ultimately he meets a young woman when he is a young adult, Jane Porter when she is marooned together with a party of travelers and her father, at the same place he and his parents were marooned.

Tarzan and Jane fall in love and when she returns to the USA he follows in search of his true love. When Tarzan eventually finds Jane, they marry and for a time they live in England. But the call of the wild is too much for him and they return to Africa to live. According to the stories they have a son whom they name Jack, and they make their home on a large estate in Africa which becomes the place from where Tarzan experiences all of his later adventures.

He is madly in love with Jane and although he comes across many situations where young ladies try to waylay him with their wiles, he always politely refuses their attentions. Strangely enough, one of the world-leaders in primate studies, Jane Goodall says that her childhood was influenced to a great degree by the Tarzan stories; she even pictured herself as being his wife. When Jane Goodall begun to actively study the lives of chimpanzees, she believed she was accomplishing her childhood dreams. Finally she was living amongst the great apes, just as Edgar Rice Burroughs had Tarzan do.