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''Tarzan and the Leopard Men'' is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the eighteenth in his series of twenty-four books about the title character
Tarzan Tarzan (John Clayton II, Viscount Greystoke) is a fictional character, an archetypal feral child raised in the African jungle by the Mangani great apes; he later experiences civilization, only to reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adv ...
. It was serialized in ''The Blue Book Magazine'' from August 1932 to January 1933. It was published in book form in 1935. Its plot has nothing in common with the 1946 film '' Tarzan and the Leopard Woman''.


Plot

An amnesiac Tarzan and his monkey companion
Nkima Nkima is a fictional character in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan novels, and in adaptations of the saga to other media, particularly comics. His name comes from either the word N'kima ('monkey' in the Mbugu language, a regional dialect of Swahili) ...
are taken by an African warrior to be his guardian spirits, and as such come into conflict with the murderous secret society of the
Leopard Men The Leopard Society (not to be confused with Ekpe), was a secret society that originated in Sierra Leone. Beatty, p.3 It was believed that members of the society could transform into leopards through the use of witchcraft. The earliest referenc ...
, led by Gato Mgungu. From America, a young woman arrives in the territory in search of a loved one presumed missing, and two young men (also from that country) come in search of ivory.


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ERBzine Illustrated Bibliography entry
{{Tarzan 1935 American novels 1935 fantasy novels Tarzan novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs