Tanar of Pellucidar

Tanar, that gallant adventurer amid the perils of Pellucidar, here enters into new and startling exploits. Pellucidar is in the hollow center of the earth, a world of savage men and prehistoric beasts. Here dwell the Buried People, here is the Land of the Awful Shadow, here the Korsar pirates terrorize the sea-coast towns. Reptiles of gigantic size, saber-toothed tigers, ferocious cave-bears, and huge mastodons roam the wilderness. Into this world two Americans are precipitated. David Innes and Abner Perry, experimenting with a powerful device made to bore through the earth’s crust for valuable minerals, lose control and are plunged down to the earth’s core. Here, in Pellucidar, they aid the inhabitants in terrific warfare against the Mahars, winged monsters of prodigious strength. Through the manufacture of gunpowder and firearms, the inventive Americans almost exterminate the enemy. David Innes become Emperor of Pellucidar. But now a new menace threatens. The piratic Korsars, led by a burly buccaneer called The Cid, carry off Tanar, the young Pellucidarian chieftain, as a hostage. On the ship Tanar meets the lovely Stellara, supposed to be The Cid’s daughter. In this strange world of primitive terror, he struggles for life and the girl he loves. This book contains the First Edition text.