1906 August The Son Of Tarzan

DATE: August 18, 1906                                                                                                                                  EVENT:Jeanne Jacot/ Meriem, now ten years old, lives in a native village. A black woman named Malbunu looks after her for her new father, Sheik Amor ben Khatour.                                                    SOURCE: "Playing before one of the Arab tents was a little girl of ten - a black-haired, black-eyed little girl who, with her nut-brown skin and graceful carriage looked every inch a daughter of the desert." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.                                           

• "There was, for example, the old black hag who looked after her, Mabunu - toothless, filthy and ill tempered." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.                                                       

CHAT: ERB offers quite a bit of information about this village. "In the heart of the jungle, hidden away upon the banks of a small unexplored tributary of a large river that empties into the Atlantic not so far from the equator, lay a small, heavily palisaded village. Twenty palm-thatched, beehive huts sheltered its black population, while a half-dozen goat skin tents in the center of the clearing housed the score of Arabs who found shelter here while, by trading and raiding, they collected the cargoes which their ships of the desert bore northward twice each year to the market at Timbuktu." ERB-The Son Of Tarzan.

The Son Of Tarzan

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

James Michael Moody is a lifelong fan and collector of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Over the past forty-five years, Moody has contributed over two hundred articles to various ERB-related fanzines. He also manages an unauthorized Tarzan blog titled Greystoke Chronologist: James Michael Moody. There, the researcher chronologizes the Tarzan books starting in May 1872 (known as the pushback theory) instead of the more accepted date, May 1888.

James Michael Moody 

James Michael Moody also authorizes the action-packed Sci-Fi fantasy adventure Unium series. Pioneers On Unium, published December 31, 2019, Exiled On Unium, published August 25, 2022, and Swordsman On Unium, published on July 15, 2024.

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