Jungle Girl

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

First published 1931

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American adventurer Gordon King travels into the Cambodian jungle and becomes caught between rival factions around the hidden city of Pnom Dhek. Ancient-looking ruins, a disputed royal succession and the heroine Fou-tan turn exploration into a mixture of romance, captivity and political adventure.

The expedition belongs to the colonial world of French Indochina, when European interest in Angkor and Khmer archaeology was reshaping Western ideas about Cambodia's past. Against that real background, Burroughs invents the hidden kingdom of Pnom Dhek and turns ruins, succession rivalry and captivity into a romantic lost-world adventure.