'The Beasts of Tarzan' is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, was first printed in book form in 1916. Tarzan is banished by Nicolas Rokoff to a wild African island. He gets the help of a panther and tribe of Great Apes to arrive at that mainland. He thinks Rokoff has kidnapped his wife and infant son. Tarzan determines to save him and hence commences the usual Burroughsian mix of amazing adventure. After Tarzan's son is kidnapped, Tarzan and Jane are allured into a dangerous web that separates them. In their frantic search for each other and for their son, they are dragged deep into the wild African jungle, where the evil deeds of Tarzan's enemies Rokoff and Paulvitch scared them at every step.