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Illustrator J. Allen St. John Language English Media type Print (Hardback) Publisher Henry Holt and Company | 3.9/5 Goodreads Country United States Publication date 1930 Originally published 1930 Genre Adventure fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Series Tarzan series
Pellucidar series Preceded by Tanar of Pellucidar, Tarzan and the Lost Empire Followed by Back to the Stone Age, Tarzan the Invincible Similar Works by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan books, Adventure fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tarzan at the earth s core by edgar rice burroughs book reading british english female voice
Tarzan at the Earth's Core is a novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, published in 1930. the thirteenth in his series of books about the title character Tarzan and the fourth in his series set in the interior world of Pellucidar.
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Tarzan at the earth s core by edgar rice burroughs 1930
Plot summary
In response to a radio plea from Abner Perry, a scientist who with his friend David Innes has discovered the interior world of Pellucidar at the Earth's core, Jason Gridley launches an expedition to rescue Innes from the Korsars (corsairs), the scourge of the internal seas. He enlists Tarzan, and a fabulous airship is constructed to penetrate Pellucidar via the natural polar opening connecting the outer and inner worlds. The airship is crewed primarily by Germans, with Tarzan's Waziri warriors under their chief Muviro also along for the expedition.
In Pellucidar Tarzan and Gridley are each separated from the main force of the expedition and must struggle for survival against the prehistoric creatures and peoples of the inner world. Gridley wins the love of the native cave-woman Jana, the Red Flower of Zoram. Eventually everyone is reunited, and the party succeeds in rescuing Innes.
As Tarzan and the others prepare to return home, Gridley decides to stay to search for Frederich Wilhelm Eric von Mendeldorf und von Horst, one last member of the expedition who remains lost (The missing Von Horst's adventures are told in a sequel, Back to the Stone Age, which does not involve either Gridley or Tarzan).
Comic adaptations
The book has been adapted into comic form by Gold Key Comics in Tarzan nos. 179-181, dated November 1969-January 1970, with a script by Gaylord DuBois and art by Doug Wildey.