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Tarzan and the Ant Men was written in 1923 and first appeared as a seven-part serial in Argosy All-Story Weekly, February 2, 9, 16, 23; March 1, 8, 15, 1924.

The first book edition was by A.C. McClurg & Co., September 30, 1924, followed by an orange cloth cover "Mixed Edition": McClurg and Grosset & Dunlap,

1925 and a Grosset & Dunlap edition in 1925 in the usual bright red cloth. There are 22 numbered chapters.

Lupoff says that this novel "contains much of Burroughs' finest pseudo-scientific speculation." He places it among "Tarzan's greatest adventures," and

commented further in his "ERB: Master of Adventure, "If anything keeps Tarzan and the Ant Men from being the perfect Tarzan novel, it is perhaps the

embarrassment of riches of the book, that makes it just a bit too much to take... Still, the virtues of TAM so outshine its deficiencies that it must be regarded

as a high point in the Tarzan series and for that matter in Burroughs' entire career." I too must comment that Tarzan and the Ant Men is a great Tarzan effort

that has the same force as his best Barsoomian Tales, in fact the swordplay, the sleuthing among an extremely well-described race, the secret panels and

tunnels, the hair-breath escapes, the loyal friends and daring rescues remind me of a Martian novel more than a normal Tarzan story. Tarzan even has the

ability to leap like John Carter. ERB never wrote a "Tarzan on Mars," but this is as close as he ever came to accomplishing that mighty combination.

Chapter 1

Hadron

In a continuation of a theme begun in Tarzan and the Golden Lion, Esteban Miranda remains a prisoner in the village of Obebe the cannibal. He wears an old

slave collar attached to a rusty chain, which holds him to a stout post. He has been chained here for a year. But two things occupy his mind:- the belief that

he is really Tarzan of the Apes; and his bag of diamonds, which he had taken when he murdered Kraski - that same bag of diamonds that Tarzan had gotten

from an old man in the Tower of Diamonds, in the Valley of the Palace of Diamonds. Miranda's life hangs in the balance -- Obebe the chief believes that he is

Tarzan, and wants to kill him; Khamis the witch-doctor believes that he is the River Devil, and will wreak a terrible vengeance if Obebe tries to kill him. Playing

upon tribal superstitions, and upon the conflict between Obebe and Khamis, Miranda convinces Uhha, the latter's daughter, that he is indeed the River Devil.

He gets her to release him from his chain. He escapes into the jungle, taking with him both his bag of diamonds and a hostage -- Uhha.

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