Attempting his first solo airplane flight, Tarzan, Lord Greystoke, crashes in the unknown land of Minuni, surrounded by an impenetrable forest of thorns. After first encountering a group of slow, speechless giants, he escapes to discover a civilization of city-states inhabited by a people one quarter his size. As he is caught up in the wars they fight among themselves, he is captured, and must escape both the city and the land to return home. Tarzan and the Ant Men is the tenth book in the Tarzan series. It ran as a seven part serial in Argosy All-Story Weekly beginning in February of 1924, and was published as a book by A. C. McClurg & Co. in September of that year. Edgar Rice Burroughs (died 1950) was an influential writer of the modernist period. Their work has endured across generations and continues to be read and studied worldwide. Adventure literature of the 19th and early 20th centuries captured the imagination of a reading public hungry for tales of exploration, danger, and heroism. Tarzan And The Ant Men belongs to this tradition of gripping narratives that transported readers beyond the boundaries of their everyday lives.
