Trailblazer (Hardcover)
Language: English
Published by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., 2026
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Hardcover. Trailblazer: The Autobiography of Tarzan's Creator celebrates the 150th anniversary of Edgar Rice Burroughs' birth with an extraordinary collection of firsthand writings, rare archival materials, and new scholarship. At its heart is Burroughs' previously unpublished 20,000-word "Autobiography," dictated in 1929, in which he recounts his life from childhood in Chicago through his early adventures as a cowboy, military cadet, cavalryman, businessman, husband, and father, culminating in the creation of two of literature's most enduring heroes: Tarzan and John Carter of Mars. Revealing, humorous, and often self-deprecating, the autobiography offers fresh insight into the man behind the legend while challenging long-standing misconceptions about his views on race through accounts of his experiences with Indigenous peoples and Black soldiers in the American Southwest.Supplementing the author's memoir is a 20,000-word biographical study by acclaimed Burroughs scholar Henry G. Franke III, tracing Burroughs' rise from aspiring writer to pioneering entrepreneur, media visionary, and World War II war correspondent.Completing the volume are eighteen essays by Burroughs, including four previously unpublished travelogues, along with rare photographs and images from the archives of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Thoughtful forewords by Burroughs' great-granddaughters Kathleen Bonnaud and Llana Jane Burroughs, and ERB, Inc., President James Sullos, make Trailblazer the definitive portrait of one of America's most influential storytellers. The never-before-published autobiography of Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan and John Carter of Mars, with more than 150 photographs, drawings, and images. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …
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- Title
- Trailblazer (Hardcover)
- Author
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Publisher
- Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1951537386
- ISBN 13
- 9781951537388
About the Author
Christopher Paul Carey is Vice President of Publishing and Creative Director of the ERB Universe at Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. He is the author of the ERB Universe novel Victory Harben: Fires of Halos and Swords Against the Moon Men, an authorized sequel to Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic science fantasy novel The Moon Maid. He has written several comic books set in Mr. Burroughs' worlds, including Pellucidar: Across Savage Seas and Carson of Venus: The Flames Beyond. Carey has edited more than 100 novels, anthologies, and collections for a variety of publishers, and has had the honor of working with Mr. Burroughs' original hand-corrected typescripts of Beyond the Farthest Star and Beyond Thirty to prepare the text for the Restored Editions of those works. He lives in Southern California.
Henry G. Franke III is the editor of The Burroughs Bulletin, the journal of The Burroughs Bibliophiles, the nonprofit literary society devoted to the life and works of Edgar Rice Burroughs. He was the Contributing Editor and penned the introductions for IDW Publishing's Library of American Comics four-volume archival series reprinting Russ Manning's Tarzan newspaper comic strips. Volume 1 won the 2014 Eisner Award for Best Archival Collection-Strips. He also wrote book introductions for IDW's Tarzan - 1929 daily strip reprints and for Tarzan and the Adventurers, the fifth volume in Titan Books' Complete Burne Hogarth Comic Strip Library. He has served three times as the Official Editor of the Edgar Rice Burroughs Amateur Press Association (ERBapa). Franke specializes in collecting art inspired by Burroughs' stories. Franke was in the U.S. Army from 1977 to 2009, and later served as an Army government civilian from 2009 to 2020.
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