What is the setting (time, not place) of Tarzan of the Apes?

It starts around when the book was first serialized, 1912 during the period when they were still discovering things like gorillas (officially at least), and it seemed plausible that there was an area both unexplored and unpopulated where a huge race of 'Anthropomoid Apes' could live. read more

Tarzan of the Apes' (1912 [serialized] by Edgar Rice Burroughs), its 25 sequels, and the many associated film both silent and talkie, both close and loosely based on it, were very popular for many decades. read more

At the start of Tarzan of the Apes, mutineers maroon the young Lord and Lady Greystoke on the coast of West Africa. They survive only eighteen months, after which point the she-ape Kala takes their year-old son to replace her own dead baby. read more