Tarzan becomes involved with an American safari and a hidden community descended from medieval Crusaders. Rivalries, captivity and romantic intrigue bring modern travellers into a society that has preserved chivalric customs far from Europe.
The safari setting and international travellers belong to interwar colonial Africa, while the hidden Crusader society allows Burroughs to collide twentieth-century assumptions with an imagined survival of medieval chivalry. The result is a lost-world adventure built around captivity, courtly custom and the disruption caused by outsiders.
The hidden Crusader-descended society gives medieval chivalric forms a survival long beyond their historical setting. Modern travellers enter a world where inherited titles, ritual and feuds still govern behaviour, forcing Tarzan to mediate between incompatible assumptions about law and honour. The adventure turns historical romance into lost-world fiction by imagining an isolated community frozen around the institutions of its founders.
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