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The Return of Tarzan was first published in the pulp New Story Magazine between June and December of 1913, and later published as a novel in 1915.The story picks up shortly after the events in the first book as Tarzan is traveling to France from the United States. While on the ship, he intervenes in the plots of a man named Nikolas Rokoff and his companion Alexis Paulvitch. Upon reaching Paris, Rokoff executes the first of many revenge plots, which plunge Tarzan into a series of adventures. The Return of Tarzan is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the second in his series of twenty-four books about the title character Tarzan. The story was first published in the pulp magazine New Story Magazine in the issues for June through December 1913; the first book edition was published in 1915 by A. C. McClurg. Plot summary Tarzan, feeling rootless in the wake of sacrificing his prospects of wedding Jane Porter, [a] leaves the United States for Europe to visit his friend Paul d'Arnot. On the ship he becomes embroiled in the affairs of Countess Olga de Coude, her husband, Count Raoul de Coude, and a pair of cruel extortionists, Nikolas Rokoff and his henchman Alexis Paulovitch. Rokoff is actually Olga's brother. Tarzan thwarts the villains' scheme, making them his deadly enemies. Arriving in France, Rokoff makes a number of attempts on Tarzan's life, eventually engineering a duel between the ape man and Raoul by making it appear that the former is Olga's lover. Tarzan refuses to defend himself in the duel, even offering his pistol to Raoul after the latter fails to kill him with his own. This gesture convinces Raoul of Tarzan's innocence, and since the ape-man finds himself without a purpose, arranges for him to join French military intelligence. Tarzan is assigned to service in French Algeria. A sequence of adventures among the locals ensues, including another brush with Rokoff. Afterward, Tarzan sails to Cape Town, Union of South Africa and strikes up a shipboard acquaintance with Hazel Strong, Jane's best friend. Rokoff and Paulovitch, having stowed away on the ship, finally manage to overpower Tarzan and throw him overboard with heavy weights. Tarzan frees himself and manages to swim to shore. He quickly realizes that the area is in fact the coastal jungle where he grew up. A brave rescue of Busuli, a warrior of the Waziri tribe, ends with Tarzan being formally adopted as a member. When the Waziri chieftain is killed by encroaching ivory poachers, Tarzan drives them off. The Waziri then elect him to be their new chief. The Waziri know of a lost city deep in the jungle, from which they have obtained their golden ornaments. Tarzan has them take him there, but is captured by its inhabitants, a race of primitive men, and is condemned to be sacrificed to their sun god. La, high priestess of the lost city of Opar, is to perform the sacrifice and speaks the ape language Tarzan learned as a child. When the sacrificial ceremony is interrupted, she hides Tarzan and promises to lead him to freedom. But Tarzan escapes on his own, locates a treasure chamber, and rejoins the Waziri.

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The Return of Tarzan was first published in the pulp New Story Magazine between June and December of 1913, and later published as a novel in 1915.The story picks up shortly after the events in the first book as Tarzan is traveling to France from the United States. While on the ship, he intervenes in the plots of a man named Nikolas Rokoff and his companion Alexis Paulvitch. Upon reaching Paris, Rokoff executes the first of many revenge plots, which plunge Tarzan into a series of adventures.

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