Swing through the jungle with Tarzan! Men were indeed more foolish and more cruel than the beasts of the jungle! How fortunate was he who lived in the peace and security of the great forest!' ― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs is the first in a series of books about Tarzan, a man raised by the she-ape Kala after his parents die in the jungle. While he is raised with the apes, he eventually finds his family's abandoned cabin and teaches him