Tarzan at the Earth's Core

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Tarzan at the Earth's Core
Dust-jacket illustration of Tarzan at the Earth's Core
Author	Edgar Rice Burroughs
Illustrator	J. Allen St. John
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Tarzan series Pellucidar series
Genre(s)	Adventure novel
Publisher	Metropolitan Books
Publication date	1930
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	301 pp
ISBN	NA
Preceded by	Tarzan and the Lost Empire
Followed by	Tarzan the Invincible

Tarzan at the Earth's Core is a novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, simultaneously the thirteenth in his series of books about the title character Tarzan and the fourth in his series set in the interior world of Pellucidar.

[edit] Plot summary

In response to a radio plea from Abner Perry, a scientist who with his friend David Innes has discovered the interior world of Pellucidar at the Earth's core, Jason Gridley launches an expedition to rescue Innes from the Korsars (corsairs), the scourge of the internal seas. He enlists Tarzan, and a fabulous airship is constructed to penetrate Pellucidar via the natural polar opening connecting the outer and inner worlds.

In Pellucidar Tarzan and Gridley are each separated from the main force of the expedition and must struggle for survival against the prehistoric creatures and peoples of the inner world. Gridley wins the love of the native cave-woman Jana, the Red Flower of Zoram. Eventually everyone is reunited, and the party succeeds in rescuing Innes.

As Tarzan and the others prepare to return home, Gridley decides to stay to search for Frederich Wilhelm Eric von Mendeldorf und von Horst, one last member of the expedition who remains lost (The missing Von Horst's adventures are told in a sequel, Back to the Stone Age, which in the event does not involve either Gridley or Tarzan).

[edit] References

Bleiler, Everett (1948). The Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 67.

Preceded by Tarzan and the Lost Empire	Tarzan series Tarzan at the Earth's Core	Succeeded by Tarzan the Invincible
Preceded by Tanar of Pellucidar	Pellucidar series Tarzan at the Earth's Core	Succeeded by Back to the Stone Age

v • d • e Works of Edgar Rice Burroughs

Tarzan novels	Tarzan of the Apes (1912) • The Return of Tarzan (1913) • The Beasts of Tarzan (1914) • The Son of Tarzan (1915) • Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar (1916) • Tarzan the Terrible (1921) • Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1922/23) • Tarzan and the Ant Men (1924) • Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (1927/28) • Tarzan and the Lost Empire (1928/29) • Tarzan at the Earth's Core (1929/30) • Tarzan the Invincible (1930/31) • Tarzan Triumphant (1931/32) • Tarzan and the City of Gold (1932) • Tarzan and the Lion Man (1933/34) • Tarzan and the Leopard Men (1932/33) • Tarzan's Quest (1935/36) • Tarzan and the Forbidden City (1938) • Tarzan and the Foreign Legion (1947) • Tarzan and the Madman (1964) • Tarzan and the Castaways (1941) • Tarzan: the Lost Adventure (1995)

Tarzan collections	Jungle Tales of Tarzan (1919) • Tarzan the Untamed (1920) • Tarzan the Magnificent (1939) • Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins (1963) • Tarzan and the Castaways (1965)

Tarzan short stories	Tarzan's First Love (1916) • The Capture of Tarzan (1916) • The Fight for the Balu (1916) • The God of Tarzan (1916) • Tarzan and the Black Boy (1917) • The Witch-Doctor Seeks Vengeance (1917) • The End of Bukawai (1917) • The Lion (1917) • The Nightmare (1917) • The Battle for Teeka (1917) • A Jungle Joke (1917) • Tarzan Rescues the Moon (1917) • Tarzan the Untamed (1919) • Tarzan and the Valley of Luna (1920) • The Tarzan Twins (1927) • Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins with Jad-Bal-Ja the Golden Lion (1936) • Tarzan and the Magic Men (1936) • Tarzan and the Elephant Men (1937/38) • Tarzan and the Champion (1940) • Tarzan and the Jungle Murders (1940)

Other jungle adventure	The Cave Girl (1925) • The Eternal Lover (1925) • Jungle Girl (1932) • The Man Eater (1935) • The Lad and the Lion (1938)

Martian series	A Princess of Mars (1917) • The Gods of Mars (1918) • The Warlord of Mars (1919) • Thuvia, Maid of Mars (1920) • The Chessmen of Mars (1922) • The Master Mind of Mars (1928) • A Fighting Man of Mars (1931) • Swords of Mars (1936) • Synthetic Men of Mars (1940) • Llana of Gathol (1948) • John Carter of Mars (1964)

Pellucidar series	At the Earth's Core (1914) • Pellucidar (1915) • Tanar of Pellucidar (1929) • Tarzan at the Earth's Core (1929) • Back to the Stone Age (1937) • Land of Terror (1944) • Savage Pellucidar (1963)

Venus series	Pirates of Venus (1934) • Lost on Venus (1935) • Carson of Venus (1939) • Escape on Venus (1946) • Wizard of Venus (1964)

Other science fiction	Beyond Thirty (1916) • The Land That Time Forgot (1918) • The People That Time Forgot (1918) • Out of Time’s Abyss (1918) • The Moon Maid (1926) • The Monster Men (1929) • The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw (1937) • Beyond the Farthest Star (1941)

Westerns	The Bandit of Hell's Bend (1926) • The War Chief (1927) • Apache Devil (1933) • The Deputy Sheriff of Comanche County (1940)

Historical novels	The Outlaw of Torn (1914/1927) • I Am a Barbarian (1967)

Other works	The Mucker (1914/16) • The Girl from Farris's (1916) • The Oakdale Affair (1917) • The Efficiency Expert (1921) • The Girl from Hollywood (1923) • The Mad King (1926) • The Rider (1937) • Pirate Blood (1970) • Minidoka: 937th Earl of One Mile Series M (1998) • Marcia of the Doorstep (1999) • You Lucky Girl! (1999) • Forgotten Tales of Love and Murder (2001)