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At the Earth's Core

At the Earth's Core

ClassicsFantasy
Pages
174
Published
1998
Language
English

Synopsis

When Dr. Abner Perry's experimental digging machine goes haywire, he and his student David Innes are sent hurtling into the Earth's core. They discover Pellucidar, a prehistoric world teeming with danger and strange inhabitants. Captured by primitive soldiers and enslaved by telepathic bird-like creatures, they must find a way to survive and escape this subterranean realm.

Prose complexity
4/10

Vibe

AdventurousTenseDarkMysterious
Portal FantasySurvivalFish Out of WaterQuest

Genres

Classics Fantasy Science Fiction Adventure

About the author

E
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of a businessman. During the Chicago influenza epidemic in 1891, he spent half a year on his brothers' ranch on the Raft River in Idaho. He attended the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and then the Michigan Military Academy, from which he graduated in 1895. He failed the entrance exam for West Point, and so became an enlisted soldier with the 7th U.S. Cavalry in Fort Grant, Arizona Territory. He was discharged in 1897, ha...

Characters

David InnesProtagonist
Dr. Abner PerrySupporting
GhakSupporting
All characters in At the Earth's Core