From The Library Of Cool

Planet of the Apes Pierre Boulle Illustrated by David de las Heras Introduced by Frans de Waal Translated by Xan Fielding The sci-fi adventure that launched a global franchise, Planet of the Apes is given a timely Folio release with David de las Heras’s spectacular artwork and a thought-provoking introduction by primatologist Frans de Waal.

ABOUT PIERRE BOULLE

Pierre Boulle (1912–94) was a French engineer and novelist. Born in Avignon, he studied at the prestigious Ecole supérieure d’électricité where he received an engineer’s degree in 1933. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he was working as an engineer on the rubber plantations in Malaya, but soon became a secret agent with the Free French in Singapore, where he was captured by the Japanese army and subjected to two years’ forced labour. He was later made a chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur and was awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Médaille de la Résistance. After the war Boulle went on to produce over 20 novels and several short story collections, receiving most acclaim for Le Pont de la rivière Kwaï (1952; The Bridge over the River Kwai) and La Planète des singes (1963; Planet of the Apes), both of which became international bestsellers and were adapted into Oscar-winning films.