Tarzan at the Earth's Core - Couverture souple

Burroughs, Edgar Rice

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0803262566 ISBN 13 : 9780803262560

Editeur : Bison Books, 2006

Synopsis

Continuing the saga of Pellucidar, the empire located in the Earth's hollow center, Tarzan at the Earth's Core" is the fourth work in this classic series. The American explorer and emperor of Pellucidar David Innes has been captured by the deadly Korsar pirates. Picking up on the desperate cries for help emanating from Pellucidar Jason Gridley of Tarzana brings the message to the only person who can help Tarzan of the Apes. Together young Gridley and Lord Greystoke travel to the exotic and strange realm within the Earth to save the imprisoned ruler. Unaccustomed to the difficulties of Pellucidar the two struggle in its savage environment with its eternal noon and bizarre monsters in their quest to save Innes and the precarious rule he has established. Sean McMullen provides an introduction for this Bison Books edition. Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) is the legendary author of dozens of novels including "Tarzan of the Apes" and "The Land That Time Forgot" available in a Bison Books edition. Sean McMullen is one of Australia's leading science fiction and fantasy authors with more than a dozen books and four dozen stories published. He is the co-author of "Strange Constellations: A History of Australian Science Fiction" and is finishing a PhD in medieval fantasy literature."

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs. At the Earth's Core is a 1914 fantasy novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first in his series about the fictional "hollow earth" land 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. David Innes is a mining heir who finances the experimental "iron mole," an excavating vehicle designed by his elderly inventor friend Abner Perry. 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. In Burroughs' concept, the Earth is a hollow shell with Pellucidar as the internal surface of that shell. 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. 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. Among their fellow captives are the brave Ghak, the Hairy One, from the country of Sari, the shifty Hooja the Sly One and the lovely Dian the Beautiful of Amoz.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Bison Books
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0803262566
• ISBN 13: 9780803262560
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 310