Tarzan and the Lion of Judah

By: Gary A. Buckingham

Narrated by: John McLain

From the blazing skies of Cyrenaica to the ground war in Abyssinia to the jungles of occupied Malaya, World War II echoes from these eight stories of adventure featuring Tarzan and Korak. Most of the tales in Tarzan and the Lion of Judah revolve around the Second Italo-Abyssinian War of 1935–1936, when Emperor Haile Selassie, the Negus of Ethiopia, impressed the world by standing up with his native army against fascist Prime Minister Benito Mussolini’s mechanized forces. Selassie, known as the Lion of Judah, was one of the most significant African rulers of the twentieth century. Edgar Rice Burroughs was no stranger to this colorful figure, who appears under one of his ceremonial names in Tarzan the Invincible, and in Tarzan the Magnificent, the jungle lord undertakes a mission on the emperor’s behalf.

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Variety is interesting.

It was much more engaged with the changing story as it moves through the years. I’d like to know what happens to people in the stories that I read, and to see the characters move through very different situation and difficulties. Each story comes to a temporary resolution, I’m sometimes burned out on situations that become worst and worst, with almost no end to the unlikely complications and endings where everything is resolved in an unlikely way. It makes it far more interesting to see their own development even within the book. The characters were living a string of events that were more like real life. Wherein most solutions are a result of human capacity, courage and refusal to give up.

A historically heavy book but with all the action of Tarzan

This book is actually several stories of Tarzan canon tied together primarily by their location in the Horn of Africa and more specifically Ethiopia. The narratives cover approximately two decades, from the early 1930's through the early 1950's. Many of the events surrounding these stories are historical facts and the author deftly added our heroes into and around those events. I found this to be very entertaining and exciting. I recommend it, particularly to fans of Tarzan and Edgar Rice Burroughs.