At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Fresh air pours in and David loses consciousness. The mole eventually comes to a stop, five hundred miles from the earth's surface. Their hopes dying, the men say their goodbyes. The temperature stablizes, they have hope however the temperature begins to drop until it is 10 degrees below zero, sometime later it begins to rise. Plunging at the rate of 7 miles an hour, the temperature rises to 153 degrees F. Unable to alter their downward course, both agree they should continue the trip but are uncertain of their survival. Descending to the earth, Perry notices the temperature has risen. When completed, they test the strange craft. Abner Perry, inventor, displays a new mechanical mole claiming it would make them wealthy. David successfly managed the family business. He is from Connecticut, son of a wealthy father who died when he was nineteen. Thirty year old David Innes relates the tale in first person. I - TOWARD THE ETERNAL FIRES (Dale Monahan) 'That night he told me his story-the story that I give you here as nearly in his own words as I can recall them.' Thus, begins the adventure of David Innes. According to the startled traveler, 10 years had passed and he was compelled to grasp the narrator's stirrup leather for support. The traveler asked the date and the year. He met the traveler from the inner world in the Sahara Desert. The narrator also states the reader would not need the final ocular proof that he had-the weird rhamphorhynchus-like creature brought back from the inner world. There is the fire of truth in his gray eyes and the ring of sincerity in his quiet voice. The narrator does not expect the reader to believe the story however feels the reader would accept it if they heard it from the lips of the man who told it to him. Burroughs revisited Pellucidar many times over the course of his writing career, each subsequent outing more detailed and exciting than the first.īy The Members of ERBList, November 1998 PROLOGUE (Dale Monahan) His remaining created world series would take much longer - Moon (1920s), Venus (1930s), Poloda (1940s). Within two years of beginning his writing career, Burroughs had created Barsoom, Tarzan's Jungle, and Pellucidar.

Of interest is ERB's successful marketing of At The Earth's Core via second serial rights to Modern Mechanics and Invention beginning in February of 1929.

McClurg printed the first edition July, 1922 and the first Gossett & Dulap reprint appeared in 1923. At the Earth's Core is the sixth novel to come from his imaginative pen.īurroughs began At The Earth's Core in January 1913 and it was serially published in All-Story Weekly the following year. He was not the first to utilize a hollow earth to tell a story, but his is the best and most completely realized of all the inner world tales. Pellucidar, Edgar Rice Burroughs' inner world, evokes fantastic images of a world without time and a landscape like no other.

At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs