Goodall has said many times during public talks and in print that Edgar Rice Burroughs’ 1912 book inspired her ...

Add it all up, and of course, the character of Jane in Tarzan could not have been based on a woman born 22 years after the book was first published. "I read Tarzan up there," Goodall recalled in the ...

At 10 years old, there were two Janes in Jane Goodall's life. Goodall had just read Tarzan of the Apes, the book that sparked her initial interest in Africa, and was introduced to Jane Porter — or as ...