![]() Coming to terms with her predicament, Jane’s ever-resourceful personality and commitment to her scientific endeavors overtakes her inbred socially decorous qualms. Once in Africa, their companion’s double-dealing becomes obvious and Jane finds herself abandoned in the wild, but in the care of a gentle savage who calls himself Tarzan. Setting off on a seemingly well-planned adventure thrilled the bold and courageous Jane, and even when signs of trouble with their traveling partners arose, her enthusiasm and clever reasoning calmed the situations and returned the focus to the matter at hand: their all-important expedition in the name of Science. Going on safari was all the rage among British noblemen in early 20th-century England, but Jane Porter and her father, a professor of science at Cambridge, weren’t interested in trophy hunting: they were searching for evidence of Darwin’s missing link. ![]()
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