![]() ![]() Innes and Perry are captured by the Mahars' ape-like Sagoth servants and taken with other human captives to the chief Mahar city of Phutra. Pellucidar is inhabited by prehistoric creatures of all geological eras, and dominated by the Mahars, a species of flying reptile both intelligent and civilized, but which enslaves and preys on the local stone-age humans. In Burroughs' concept, the Earth is a hollow shell with Pellucidar as the internal surface of that shell. In a test run, they discover the vehicle cannot be turned, and it burrows 500 miles into the Earth's crust, emerging into the unknown interior world of Pellucidar. The author relates how, traveling in the Sahara desert, he has encountered a remarkable vehicle and its pilot, David Innes, a man with a remarkable story to tell.ĭavid Innes is a mining heir who finances the experimental "iron mole," an excavating vehicle designed by his elderly inventor friend Abner Perry. It was first published in book form in hardcover by A. It first appeared as a four-part serial in All-Story Weekly from April 4 to 25, 1914. At The Earth's Core was serialized in All Story Weekly in 1914.Īt the Earth's Core is a 1914 fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first in his series about the fictional " hollow earth" land of Pellucidar. ![]()
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