Tarzan and the Ant-Men

In this extraordinary jungle adventure, Tarzan crosses the forbidden Great Thorn Forest and discovers a hidden world of giants, miniature kingdoms, and impossible science. In Tarzan and the Ant-Men, Edgar Rice Burroughs sends the ape-man into one of his strangest and most imaginative realms. After a plane crash carries him beyond the impassable Great Thorn Forest, Tarzan encounters the Alali-primitive giants whose brutal customs make survival uncertain. Yet even this peril pales beside what lies beyond: the warring nations of the Ant-Men, a civilization of people scarcely eighteen inches tall. Honored at first in the city of Trohanadalmakus, Tarzan soon becomes a pawn in the bitter conflict between rival kingdoms. Captured by the warriors of Veltopismakus, he faces a fate more terrible than chains. Through uncanny science, the ape-man is reduced to the size of his captors and forced into bondage as a quarry slave. Stripped of his natural advantage of strength and stature, Tarzan must rely upon cunning, courage, and indomitable will to survive. Blending jungle adventure with lost-world fantasy and speculative science, this novel stands as one of the most inventive entries in the Tarzan saga-a tale of survival where even the king of the jungle must fight from the smallest of positions. Explore other exciting Positronic Books devoted to classic science fiction, fantasy, and mystery.

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) was an American novelist best known for creating some of the most enduring adventure heroes of the twentieth century. He achieved immediate success with Tarzan of the Apes (1912), introducing the jungle-born Tarzan, and soon afterward launched the Barsoom series beginning with A Princess of Mars, establishing a model for planetary romance and interplanetary adventure.Burroughs' fiction is marked by sweeping imagination, exotic settings, and fast-moving narrative momentum. His tales of lost civilizations, distant worlds, and heroic survival captured the spirit of early pulp fiction and helped shape the development of modern adventure and science fiction genres.Over the course of his career, Burroughs wrote dozens of novels across multiple series, many of which were adapted into films, comics, and radio programs. His influence remains visible in popular culture, particularly in adventure fantasy and space opera traditions that continue to draw upon the archetypes he helped define.