Edgar Rice Burroughs

Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar Annotated Edgar Rice Burroughs

Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar is a novel on the title character Tarzan, returns to Opar, the source of the gold where a lost colony of legendary Atlantis is located, in order to make good on some financial reverses he has recently suffered. While Atlantis itself descended under the waves thousands of years ago, the workers of Opar continual to mine all of the gold, which means there is a rather huge stock but which is now lost to the memory of the Oparians and only Tarzan knows its undisclosed location. In the meanwhile, Jane has been kidnapped by the Arab and wonders what is keeping her husband from once again coming to her rescue. A now amnesiac Tarzan and Werper escape from Opar, bearing away the sacrificial knife of Opar which La and some retainers set out to recover. There is intrigue and counter intrigue the rest of the way.