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Title: At the Earth's Core
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Release Date: June 19, 2008 [EBook #123]
[Last updated: July 19, 2012]
Language: English
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At the Earth's Core
By
Edgar Rice Burroughs
CONTENTS
PROLOG
I
TOWARD THE ETERNAL FIRES
II
A STRANGE WORLD
III
A CHANGE OF MASTERS
IV
DIAN THE BEAUTIFUL
V
SLAVES
VI
THE BEGINNING OF HORROR
VII
FREEDOM
VIII
THE MAHAR TEMPLE
IX
THE FACE OF DEATH
X
PHUTRA AGAIN
XI
FOUR DEAD MAHARS
XII
PURSUIT
XIII
THE SLY ONE
XIV
THE GARDEN OF EDEN
XV
BACK TO EARTH
PROLOG
IN THE FIRST PLACE PLEASE BEAR IN MIND THAT I do not expect you to believe this story. Nor could you wonder had you witnessed a recent experience of mine when, in the armor of blissful and stupendous ignorance, I gaily narrated the gist of it to a Fellow of the Royal Geological Society on the occasion of my last trip to London.
You would surely have thought that I had been detected in no less a heinous crime than the purloining of the Crown Jewels from the Tower, or putting poison in the coffee of His Majesty the King.
The story follows David Innes and his inventor friend, Abner Perry, who travel to the Earth's core in a mechanical drilling machine called the "Iron Mole." To their astonishment, they discover a hidden world called Pellucidar, a prehistoric realm inhabited by strange creatures, dinosaurs, and primitive humans. This inner world is lit by a perpetual sun and has its own unique laws of physics and time.
