Publisher's Synopsis
In 1888, Lord and Lady Greystoke, a young aristocratic couple on a diplomatic mission to a British colony in Africa, are marooned on a remote coastline after a deadly mutiny on their boat. She dies not long after giving birth to their son, and, after a giant ape kills Lord Greystoke, Kala, a female ape who's recently lost her baby, adopts the infant and calls him "Tarzan," "white skin" in the ape language. As Tarzan grows, he's torn between the world of the apes and the secrets of the shoreline cottage where he was born, though he doesn't know this. The conflict only grows more intense when another crew of nautical no-goodniks abandon their passengers -- including an absent-minded American professor and his spirited daughter, Jane -- on the beach.
