Tarzan of the Apes

A weathered diary and a few terse colonial reports frame the tale of a young English noble dispatched to West Africa on a delicate mission. Before he can even glimpse the coast, a violent storm shatters his ship and sweeps him onto an uncharted jungle shore. The wrecked vessel is forgotten, and the nobleman—still barely a boy—finds himself alone among the tangled vines and roaring rivers of an untamed land.

Rescued not by people but by a troop of great apes, he is taken in as one of their own and learns to swing through the canopy, hunt with instinct, and speak a language of gestures and growls. Within this wild sanctuary he discovers a fierce sense of belonging that clashes with the faint memory of his civilized upbringing. As more strangers occasionally breach the jungle’s veil, the young lord must navigate the growing tension between the primal world that raised him and the faint call of the world he once knew.