![]() Tarzan’s parents weren’t shipwrecked they were marooned, according to Burroughs' first Tarzan book, " Tarzan of the Apes." After the crew mutinied, Lord Greystoke and Lady Alice, who was pregnant, were deposited on the African coast with supplies and guns to help them survive for as long as five to eight years. It’s a dramatic scene, but also not at all how it happened in the book. The very first scene of Disney’s 1999 “Tarzan” opens on a ship engulfed in flames as a man desperately lowers a lifeboat with his wife and newborn son onboard into the churning waves. In light of that, here are 11 things people think they know about Tarzan that are wrong. ![]() ![]() Naturally, though, over more than a century, a few misconceptions about the character and his adventures have taken root. ![]() In 2012, he celebrated his 100th birthday, and with the recent “The Legend of Tarzan” hitting theaters, his total number of TV and movie appearances climbs to 119, according to IMDB, placing him just behind guys such as Dracula, Sherlock Holmes and Hamlet as one of the most adapted literary characters of all time. There’s no question, Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan is one of the most enduring characters around. ![]()
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