Tarzan in the Heart of Darkness: (Inspired by Edgar Rice Burroughs) - Paperback

by Walter Donway (Author)

The heroic young African woman whom Tarzan meets, N'Kimba, has traveled across the midsection of Africa from the east-the hunting grounds of the legendary Maasai lion hunters in what is now Kenya and Tanzania. She comes in search of her parents, seized by slave hunters and taken back to work in the rubber plantations of the Congo Free State.Her own home, to which she and Tarzan later journey, is on the east side of Africa, bordering the Indian Ocean. It is the homeland of the Maasai, but also the vast territory of Arab-Islamic slave traders, who for centuries took slaves from all populations not of their religion, but especially the Bantus. On the Indian Ocean coast, the island of Zanzibar was a slave market through which millions of African men, woman, and children were sold into slavery worldwide.

Author Biography

Walter Donway is a professional writer and editor who founded and edited the quarterly journal Cerebrum: The Dana Forum on Brain Science under the editorial eagle eye of the legendary language maven, William Safire. His work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Commonwealth, Iowa Review, The New Individualist, Cosmopolitan, Medical World News, Newsday and Occasional Review, to name a few. He is a contributor to Poet's House in New York City and a member of the East End Poets. He divides his time between New York City and East Hampton on Long Island. Other books by Walter Donway include four novels, two memoirs, a collection of shorts stories and personal essays, and two books on political economics and politics. His Amazon page is www.amazon.com/author/walterdonway. With thanks to friend and colleague, Donna F. Paris, contributing editor to "Savvy Street," for copy editing this book.