Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950), “At the Earth’s Core: Pellucidar”, 1914.

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Jules Verne (1828-1905), “Journey to the Center of the Earth”, 1864 was the topic of an earlier blog post.

Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes“, 1912 also was the topic of an earlier blog post.

Here I present: Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950), “At the Earth’s Core: Pellucidar”, 1914 was a subterranean (hollow earth)

fantasy novel.

The “table of contents” of book is shown BELOW. There are fifteen (15) chapters in the book; and, each chapter contains a title (listed BELOW).

Chapter #. “Title”.

#1. “Towards the Eternal Fire”.

#2. “A Strange World”.

#3. “A Change of Masters”.

#4. “Dian, the Beautiful”.

#5. “Slaves”.

#6. “The Beginning of Horror”.

#7. “Freedom”.

#8. “The Mahar Temple”.

#9. “The Face of Death”.

#10. “Phutra Again”.

#11. “Four Dead Mahar”.

#12. “Pursuit”.

#13. “The Sly One”.

#14. “The Garden of Eden”.

#15. “Back to Earth”.

SUMMARY.

The “Empire of Pellucidar” (map shown ABOVE) is beneath the surface of the Earth; and, is the setting of the novel. The protagonist is David Innes (mining heir); and, the foil character is David Innes Abner Perry (geology professor).

The pair of David Innes & Abner Perry travel in a mechanical subterranean prospector to Pellucidar from the Sahara Desert.
Pellucidar is a subworld beneath the surface of Earth illuminated by a miniature Sun that does not set. Scattered throughout Pellucidar (
a savage prehistoric wilderness) are communities of distrustful humans and the cities of the reptilian, highly evolved Mahars. The cities of the Mahar are shown on the map ABOVE; also, the location of the mechanical subterranean prospector is shown on the map ABOVE.

In the final chapter #15 “Back to Earth”, David Innes & Abner Perry travel back to the world of the Earth surface. At return to the world of the Earth surface, Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950), “At the Earth’s Core“, 1914 has told a wonderful fantasy story of subterranean fiction.