Tarzan at the Earth's Core

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name = Tarzan at the Earth's Core
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image_caption = Dust-jacket illustration of "Tarzan at the Earth's Core"
author = Edgar Rice Burroughs
illustrator = J. Allen St. John
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country = United States
language = English
series = Tarzan series
Pellucidar series
genre = Adventure novel
publisher = Metropolitan Books
release_date = 1930
media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 301 pp
isbn = NA
preceded_by = Tarzan and the Lost Empire
followed_by = Tarzan the Invincible

"Tarzan at the Earth's Core" is a novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, simultaneously 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.

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.

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 in the event 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.

Copyright

The copyright for this story has expired in Australia, and thus now resides in the public domain there. The text is available via Project Gutenberg Australia.

References

*cite book | last=Bleiler | first=Everett | authorlink=Everett F. Bleiler | title=The Checklist of Fantastic Literature | location=Chicago | publisher=Shasta Publishers | pages=67 | date=1948

External links

* [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0601071h.html Free Ebook from Project Gutenberg of Australia]
* [http://www.erblist.com/erblist/taecsummary.html Edgar Rice Burroughs Summary Project Page for "Tarzan at the Earth's Core"]