Back to the Stone Age

When the great dirigible, the giant O-220, sailed majestically through the north polar opening out of that weird and savage inner world, Pellucidar, it left behind, unaccounted for, but a single member of its original crew that had sailed with Jason Gridley and Tarzan to the rescue of David Innes. That man was Lieutenant von Horst, and this is the story of the strange adventures that befell him among the stone age peoples of Pellucidar as he wandered, friendless and alone, from one danger to another. Interwoven with it is the story of the love of this cultured man for a little, barbarian slave girl who spurned and derided him and discouraged him and ran away from him for a strange purpose that keeps the reader guessing to the very end. Here we encounter mighty reptiles and huge animals that have been extinct upon the outer crust for thousands of years but which roam today the plains and forests of the world beneath our feet. Here we live with savage cave men in the country of the Basti and the Mammoth Men, with the hideous Gorbuses in the caverns beneath the Forest of Death, and come at last to Lo-Har where the terrible Gaz waits to destroy von Horst. It's a story that will make you forget the petty annoyances of the day. It will even make you forget the income tax. NOTE: The text pages are made up of images of the original First Edition text. This book has not been re-typeset.