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What happens when the lord of the jungle enters a world where night never falls and reptiles rule?
A radio call draws Jason Gridley toward Pellucidar, a hidden world inside the hollow Earth. David Innes, an American adventurer and leader there, needs help. Gridley turns to Tarzan, Lord Greystoke, for a rescue that takes the ape-man far beyond his African forests. Skill and nerve matter more than familiar ground.
In Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Tarzan at the Earth's Core, the horizon curves upward and ancient beasts threaten the expedition. The Mahars, intelligent flying reptiles, rule much of this inner land, with fierce Sagoth soldiers enforcing their power. When events divide the party, the travelers must face danger apart. Loyalty gives them a reason to keep going.
What you’ll discover
- A world without night Enter Pellucidar, where an upward-curving horizon makes even the landscape feel strange.
- Tarzan beyond the jungle Follow the ape-man into unfamiliar country that demands his skill and nerve.
- Monsters with power Meet the Mahars and their Sagoth soldiers, whose rule makes humans lesser creatures.
- Friendship worth the danger Discover a rescue driven by the refusal to abandon friends, however far away.
- Danger at every turn Short chapters and perilous encounters keep the story close to the action.
Who will love it
Readers who love lost worlds, dinosaurs, daring escapes, and old-fashioned pulp adventure will enjoy this journey. It also welcomes Tarzan fans eager to follow him far from his African home.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A radio message sets a rescue in motion
- A fireproof airship is built from Harbenite
- The ship crosses the pole into Pellucidar
- Tarzan walks into a trap in a timeless world
- Gridley is lost among the great cats
- Tarzan finds friends among the Sagoths
- Jana and Jason travel through the mountains
- A boy, a bear, and the Clovi tribe
- Tracks lead toward the mountains
Who’s who
- TarzanThe ape-man, also called Lord Greystoke, who leads the expedition into Pellucidar and wins loyal friends among men.
- Jason GridleyA young American radio experimenter who organises the rescue and learns to survive in the wild after his plane is wrecked.
- JanaThe Red Flower of Zoram, a proud mountain girl who is brave, quick, and fiercely independent.
- ThoarA warrior of Zoram who joins Tarzan and searches for his lost sister across the mountains.
- Tar-gashA Sagoth bull, hairy and powerful, who becomes Tarzan's loyal companion on the trail.
- Captain ZuppnerThe commander of the O-220, who must keep the ship and its crew together while the search goes on.
- MuviroThe chief of the Waziri warriors, skilled trackers who serve Tarzan faithfully.
- David InnesThe Emperor of Pellucidar, held prisoner by the Korsars, whom the expedition has come to free.
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Tarzan im Inneren der Erde
by Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1930
Tarzan flies a vacuum airship to the North Pole and drops into a hollow world of living dinosaurs.
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What if the Earth were hollow, and a whole world lay inside it, lit by a sun that never sets? In Tarzan at the Earth's Core, Edgar Rice Burroughs sends the Lord of the Jungle in a giant airship to the North Pole and down into Pellucidar.
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A radio message sets a rescue in motion
The story opens in the African forest, where Tarzan meets Jason Gridley, a young American who has travelled from Southern California to find him. Gridley has picked up radio messages from Abner Perry, the inventor who lives in Pellucidar, the world on the inside of the hollow Earth. Perry's last word says that David Innes, Emperor of Pellucidar, sits in a dungeon in the land of the Korsars.
Tarzan doubts the idea at first, because scientists say a hollow Earth has been disproved. Gridley answers with the things Arctic explorers have reported, such as warm winds, green branches floating south, pollen on the ice, and strange compass behaviour. He admits he is sure of an inner world but not of a polar opening, yet he thinks the evidence is enough to justify a try.
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What is Tarzan at the Earth's Core about?
Tarzan joins an expedition in a giant airship to the North Pole, enters the hollow world of Pellucidar, and searches for David Innes, its imprisoned Emperor, while meeting beasts and tribes of the Stone Age.
What is Pellucidar?
Pellucidar is the inner world of the hollow Earth in Burroughs's stories. A small sun hangs at its centre, so it has no night, no horizon, and no sense of time, and ancient creatures still live there.
Who is Jana, the Red Flower of Zoram?
Jana is a proud young woman of the mountain tribe of Zoram. She is brave and independent, and her path crosses those of Jason Gridley and Tarzan as she tries to return home.
The author
Edgar Rice Burroughs
1875–1950 · American adventure novelist
Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American writer born in Chicago in 1875. He wrote novels about Tarzan and novels set on Mars. His first Mars story appeared in 1912 and became the book A Princess of Mars in 1917. He later lived in California and died in Encino in 1950.
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