Article first published asBook Review:Tarzan Centennialby Scott Tracy Griffinon Blogcritics.
About:
Tarzan The Centennial Celebration by Scott Tracy Griffin is a coffee table book (13″ x 10 1/4″) celebrating 100 years of the famous lord of the jungle. Mr. Griffin is the leading authority on Edgar Rice Burroughs and on his 1912 creation of which this book is about.
The publisher is giving away one copy of this book –to enter fill out the Rafflecoptter form at the end of the post.
- 320 pages
- Publisher:Titan Books (November 20, 2012)
- Language:English
- ISBN-10:1781161690
My rating for Tarzan The Centennial Celebration – 5
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Thoughts:
Tarzan The Centennial Celebrationcompiled by Scott Tracy Griffin (website) is, in one word, amazing. The book is a feast to the eyes, I spent hours sitting down looking at it explain to my son (5) whose who and looking at the great visuals and animals (he just did the letter “E” in kindergarten so we were looking for elephants).
The book is full of great art, pictures, illustrations and even sketches by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The text associated with the pictures is very interesting and enlightening about every subject Tarzan fans would like to delve into, from his animals to synopsis of each of the stories by Burroughs and others.
A fascinating introduction by actor Ron Ely starts the journey into Tarzan and other writings by Burroughs. Followed by a short biography of Burroughs and a short synopsis of every Tarzan book he published with high quality images of gorgeous covers. A short chapter about Tarzan for children, followed by a “How to Speak Ape” section and maps of Africa drawn by Mr. Burroughs himself.
A fantastic section about the comics followed by those who played Tarzan on radio, stage, the silver screen and television – even Disney’s Tarzan gets a mention. The book closes out telling the fans about Tarzana, Ca, collectibles, authorized sequels, foreign editions, the web and more.
This is a wonderful book with a “WOW’ factor for the inner geek in all of us. The book will grace the coffee table in our house and is a great present for the geek who has everything.
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Giveaway
Giveaway ends: November 22, 2012
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Winners will have 24 hours to write back with their address, otherwise an alternate winner will be picked
Congratulations: name as email
Zohar — Man of la Book
Disclaimer:I got this book for free.
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3 Comments
This book looks amazing! Thanks for offering it as a giveaway. What a treasure.
My email is carlscott(at)prodigy(dot)net(dot)mx. Thanks for the giveaway. Tarzan is a long-time favorite of mine. i’m really looking forward to the centennial.
Thanks to the publisher and to Zohar for this giveaway. I finally finished the book last night and was blown away! I’ve posted a glowing review to Amazon and to Goodreads.