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With time, Smith-Jones grows more healthy due to the constant physical demands of primitive living. For six months he trains himself and makes some weapons. A modern ship stops at the island, but Waldo surprises himself by deciding to stay until he can ensure Nadara's safety. He gives the crew a letter for his mother and returns to the jungle. |
With time, Smith-Jones grows more healthy due to the constant physical demands of primitive living. For six months he trains himself and makes some weapons. A modern ship stops at the island, but Waldo surprises himself by deciding to stay until he can ensure Nadara's safety. He gives the crew a letter for his mother and returns to the jungle. |
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After Waldo locates the tribe again (they move caves periodically) Nadara's father ask him to give her a packet of her deceased mother's things. Waldo tracks and finds Nadara, and kills the brutal man chasing her. She is uninterested in the packet and throws it away. A modern ship approaches the island. As Wadlo realizes that he loves her, and how harshly society would treat her, the two agree to head for the hills. The ship's search party finds the packet that Nadara dropped. The contents identify come from a married noble couple from the outside world, who disappeared on a voyage less than twenty years before. |
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Waldo realizes that his love for Nadara is such that he wants her to have everything he can offer. By now the ship is gone. |
Waldo realizes that his love for Nadara is such that he wants her to have everything he can offer. By now the ship is gone. Nadara's father, on his deathbed, explains that her mother, who came from the outside world, had died shortly after her birth. Waldo decides to wait until they can return to civilization to marry her, and teaches her English in preparation for that day. He introduces the tribe to improve weapons and shields, [[agriculture]], permanent homes and [[consent of the governed]]. They choose him as their king. The tribe fights off a raid by the ape-like tribe. |
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One ape-man returns that night and kidnaps Nadara. An[[earthquake]] allows her to escape, but the earthquake has destroyed the tribe's homes and she believes Waldo has died. Nadara then encounters Smith-Jones' mother and father, who, having received the letter, have come with a search party to the island to look for him. She explains Waldo's (supposed) death. The ship departs, but a storm blows it back towards the islands, where she encounter a [[cannibal]] tribe. |
One ape-man returns that night and kidnaps Nadara. An[[earthquake]] allows her to escape, but the earthquake has destroyed the tribe's homes and she believes Waldo has died. Nadara then encounters Smith-Jones' mother and father, who, having received the letter, have come with a search party to the island to look for him. She explains Waldo's (supposed) death. The ship departs, but a storm blows it back towards the islands, where she encounter a [[cannibal]] tribe. |
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| Author | Edgar Rice Burroughs |
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| Cover artist | J. Allen St. John |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fantasy, Lost World |
| Publisher | A. C. McClurg |
Publication date | 21 March 1925 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 323 |
The Cave Girl is a lost world novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. Originally published in two separate stories, The Cave Girl begun in February 1913 and published by "All-Story" in July, August, and September 1913; and The Cave Man begun in 1914 and published by "All-Story Weekly" throughout March and April 1917.[1] The book version was first published by A. C. McClurg on 1925-03-21. In August 1949, Dell Paperback published a version with a map captioned "Wild Island Home of Nadara the Cave Girl Where Violence and Bloodshed Rule."[1]
Plot
Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones, a upper class milquetoast, is swept overboard during a South Seas voyage which he he has undergone for his health. Stranded on a jungle island, he at first encounters violent missing link types, then meets a beautiful girl, Nadara, also on the run. In an uncharacteristic gesture, he saves her from the grasp of one of the ape men. Mistaking his frightened screams for war cries, she calls him Thandar ("the brave one"). She teaches him her language, how to swim, how to fish, and basic woodcraft. But Nadara warns him that a newcomer to her tribe must fight the strongest men. When they reach her home village, he is horrified to find her tribe are cave-dwellers out of the Paleolithic era, not much better than the first tribe. Afraid of having to fight one of the menfolk, he vanished.
With time, Smith-Jones grows more healthy due to the constant physical demands of primitive living. For six months he trains himself and makes some weapons. A modern ship stops at the island, but Waldo surprises himself by deciding to stay until he can ensure Nadara's safety. He gives the crew a letter for his mother and returns to the jungle.
After Waldo locates the tribe again (they move caves periodically) Nadara's father ask him to give her a packet of her deceased mother's things. Waldo tracks and finds Nadara, and kills the brutal man chasing her. She is uninterested in the packet and throws it away. A modern ship approaches the island. As Wadlo realizes that he loves her, and how harshly society would treat her, the two agree to head for the hills. The ship's search party finds the packet that Nadara dropped. The contents identify come from a married noble couple from the outside world, who disappeared on a voyage less than twenty years before.
Waldo realizes that his love for Nadara is such that he wants her to have everything he can offer. By now the ship is gone. Nadara's father, on his deathbed, explains that her mother, who came from the outside world, had died shortly after her birth. Waldo decides to wait until they can return to civilization to marry her, and teaches her English in preparation for that day. He introduces the tribe to improve weapons and shields, agriculture, permanent homes and consent of the governed. They choose him as their king. The tribe fights off a raid by the ape-like tribe.
One ape-man returns that night and kidnaps Nadara. Anearthquake allows her to escape, but the earthquake has destroyed the tribe's homes and she believes Waldo has died. Nadara then encounters Smith-Jones' mother and father, who, having received the letter, have come with a search party to the island to look for him. She explains Waldo's (supposed) death. The ship departs, but a storm blows it back towards the islands, where she encounter a cannibal tribe.
Waldo, who survived the earthquake, had built a small boat to find her and has an adventure with pirates. After a reunion, the party sets off to Honolulu. The ship's captain presents Nadara with the found packet as a wedding present, not realizing her connection to it. They discover her noble heritage, and she and Waldo marry.
Reception
Floyd C. Gale of Galaxy Science Fiction in 1963 described The Cave Girl as "a typical Burroughs adventure yarn" and among the rarest of his books before it was reprinted.[2]
Copyright
The copyright for this story has expired in the United States and, thus, now resides in the public domain there.
References
- ^ a b Tarzan.com
- ^ Gale, Floyd C. (October 1963). "Galaxy's 5 Star Shelf". Galaxy Science Fiction. pp. 119–123.
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