Master of Adventure: The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs

Table of contents

• Bison Frontiers of Imagination ii
• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• List of Illustrations ix
• Foreword xi
• Introduction to the Bison Books Edition: Nineteen Sixty Five and All That xv
• Preface xxiii
• Introduction xxxvii
• Chapter I - Who Was Edgar Rice Burroughs 1
• Chapter II - The Beginning of a Career 5
• Chapter III - A Phoenician on Mars 15
• Chapter IV - To the Earth's Core—And Elsewhere 27
• Chapter V - Barsoom Resumed 47
• Chapter VI - The Return to Pellucidar 52
• Chapter VII - Wieroos and Kalkars 64
• Chapter VIII - The Good Pot-Boilers 81
• Chapter IX - Barsoom Concluded 94
• Chapter X - Wrong-Way Carson 101
• Chapter XI - The Last Hero 111
• Chapter XII - The Backs of Old Letterheads 120
• Chapter XIII - Tarzan Returns 137
• Chapter XIV - And Returns and Returns 143
• Chapter XV - Ancestors of Tarzan 150
• Chapter XVI - Tarzan's Greatest Adventures 163
• Chapter XVII - Last Tales of Tarzan 176
• Chapter XVIII - Descendants of Tarzan 184
• Chapter XIX - A Basic Burroughs Library 202
• Chapter XX - The Surprise in the Safe 214
• Chapter XXI - Forty More Years of Adventure 224
• Appendix I - A Checklist of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Books 263
• Appendix II - A List of Burroughs' Fanzines 267
• Acknowledgments 269
• Bibliography 271
• Index 281
• In the Bison Frontiers of Imagination Series 308

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