In this epic new story that inspires horror, Tarzan’s son Korak, who craves adventure like his father, bids farewell to the civilized society and learns the art of the forest from Akuti, the strongest ape living in the forest.
The ship is destroyed by a storm in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and Tarzan and the rest of the passengers are freed from the ship and land on a deserted island where the last kingdom of the Mayan tribes is located.
Tarzan learns of a group of terrifying tribesmen known as the Lizardmen who are spreading terror in his forest kingdom and enters the great forest in search of their mysterious city. This new story tells how Tarzan, who loses his memory in an accident during this terrible journey, regains consciousness and destroys the tribe of humans and restores peace to his kingdom.
The novel is set in World War I and opens with a framing story in which a manuscript relating the main story is recovered from a thermos off the coast of Greenland. It purports to be the narrative of Bowen J. Tyler, an American passenger sunk in the English Channel by a German U-boat,