Tarzan The Untamed By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Think Disney's Oscar-winning 1999 Tarzan with Phil Collins' unforgettable "You'll Be in My Heart" was intense? This audiobook takes the jungle legend you know from Broadway musicals, theme park attractions, and direct-to-video sequels and plunges him into his most harrowing adventure yet.

While Tarzan is away from his plantation home in British East Africa during World War I, invading German troops destroy everything—and among the burned bodies, he discovers what appears to be Jane's corpse. The gentle jungle protector Disney showed us? Gone. What emerges is Tarzan untamed, unhinged, and driven by vengeance across war-torn Africa.

This is the story Disney couldn't tell—but it's the raw emotional core that made the legend powerful enough to adapt.

Maddened by loss, Tarzan infiltrates enemy lines, traps a lion in a gulch, captures the German major responsible, and feeds him to the beast. He survives crossing a deadly desert by catching and devouring a vulture that was following him, giving him just enough strength to continue. This is survival storytelling at its most visceral—the kind of edge-of-your-seat intensity that translates perfectly to audio.

Tarzan has been adapted for film more times than any character except Dracula, from silent films in 1918 through Johnny Weissmuller's iconic run to Disney's animated classic. Every filmmaker who touched Tarzan drew from this darker, more complex material—the ape-man as protector, avenger, and tortured soul caught between civilization and wilderness.

Even the 2001 PlayStation 2 and GameCube video game "Tarzan: Untamed" took its title from this novel, proving its lasting impact on pop culture across every medium.

Whether you discovered Tarzan through Disney's animation, The Legend of Tarzan TV series, or Alexander Skarsgård's 2016 film, this audiobook reveals the primal power beneath the family-friendly surface. It's the story that proved Tarzan could be more than jungle adventures—he could be Shakespeare in the wild, tragedy wrapped in action.