Perhaps the most versatile writer of his time. Burroughs was best known for his creations of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter. Wasted ages In a brief instant the veneer of eons crumbles . . . revealing again the primitive and the brute -- naked, and unashamed. Scion of a wealthy family, the effete Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones has been transformed . . . no thanks to the proper training and education due Boston's finest -- but due to sheer, desperate necessity: for he must survive as a castaway Surrounded by brutish troglodytes, he discovers resources and strengths he never knew he possessed -- as well as love, with the strangely bewitching Nadara. Rising to the leadership of her primitive tribe, he makes plans for a return to civilization . . . a return, he soon learns, fraught with more peril than the jungle