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Tarzan at the Earth’s Core
Tarzan at the Earth’s Core Plot summary
Perry,
In response to a radio plea from Abner Perry a scientist
who with his friend David Innes has discovered the in-
terior world of Pellucidar at the Earth’s core, Jason Grid-
ley launches an expedition to rescue Innes from the Kor-
sars (corsairs), the scourge of the internal seas. He enlists
Tarzan,
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
Zoram.
cave-woman Jana, the Red Flower of Zoram Eventually
everyone is reunited, and the party succeeds in rescuing
Innes.
Dust-jacket illustration of Tarzan at the Earth’s Core
As Tarzan and the others prepare to return home,
Author(s) Edgar Rice Burroughs Gridley decides to stay to search for Frederich Wilhelm
Horst,
Eric von Mendeldorf und von Horst one last member
Illustrator J. Allen St. John
of the expedition who remains lost (The missing Von
Country United States Horst’s adventures are told in a sequel, Back to the Stone
Age which does not involve either Gridley or Tarzan).
Age,
Language English
Series Tarzan series
Pellucidar series Comic adaptations
Genre(s) Adventure novel The book has been adapted into comic form by Gold Key
Comics in Tarzan nos. 179-181, dated November
Publisher Metropolitan Books
1969-January 1970, with a script by Gaylord DuBois and
Publication date 1930 art by Doug Wildey.
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages 301 pp
Copyright
The copyright for this story has expired in Australia, and
ISBN NA
thus now resides in the public domain there. The text is
Preceded by Tarzan and the Lost Empire available via Project Gutenberg Australia.
Tanar of Pellucidar
Followed by Tarzan the Invincible
Back to the Stone Age
References
• Bleiler, Everett (1948). The Checklist of Fantastic
Tarzan at the Earth’s Core is a novel written by Edgar Rice Literature. Chicago: Shasta Publishers. pp. 67.
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.
External links
• ERBzine.com Illustrated Bibliography entry for Edgar
Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan at the Earth’s Core
• Free Ebook from Project Gutenberg of Australia
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tarzan at the Earth’s Core
Preceded by Tarzan series Succeeded by
Tarzan and the Lost Empire Tarzan at the Earth’s Core Tarzan the Invincible
Preceded by Pellucidar series Succeeded by
Tanar of Pellucidar Tarzan at the Earth’s Core Back to the Stone Age
• Edgar Rice Burroughs Summary Project Page for
Tarzan at the Earth’s Core
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