Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Lad and the Lion illustrated Edgar Rice Burroughs

This book, is a sort of throw back to his original idea of Tarzan, instead of an Ape-Man though, the culmination is a lion man. We have no Baltimore beauty, but instead a desert princess, haughty and spoiled, but very passionate. Michael is the grandson of a king, somewhere in Europe, and the next in line to the throne. His grandfather, assasignated, has sent his grandson away. Little could anyone predict the boat would sink and Michael would become the latest victim of one of Burroughs favorite plot devices, an amnesiac. The boy doesn't remember a thing about his previous life, speech, civilization, nothing. He is picked up by a (the most villainous character in the book) deaf mute in a boat, who also has a lion cub kept in a cage. The two (lion and lad) a victim of this nameless man's cruelties and become 'brothers'