Tarzan at the Earth's Core

Called from his home in the African jungle to great adventure, Tarzan of the Apes summons his Waziri spearmen and joins the Jason Gridley expedition to seek the arctic opening in the earth's surface that lead to the inner world of Pellucidar. Sailing by airship, they glide almost imperceptibly from the world that we know to the strange and terrifying land that lies beneath the earth's crust. There, where time does not exist, where neither Tarzan's jungle lore nor the charts of scientists are of any use as guides, they face the problem of rescuing an American adventurer who is held captive by the bloodthirsty Korsars. With the dirigible safely moored, Tarzan sets forth alone on foot to investigate the jungles of Pellucidar. Suddenly he finds himself jerked into the air by a monster snare and set upon by a saber-toothed tiger. So the ape-man begins his heart-tingling adventure at the earth's core. Here, on land and sea and even in the air, lurk unknown perils. The airplane sent out from the dirigible to rescue Tarzan runs foul of a giant flying reptile that sends the plane crashing to destruction. Tarzan himself is carried off in the talons of a ferocious batlike creature to its mountain eyrie. Slashing his way through trackless forests and dangerous swamps, outwitting his cruel human captors, Tarzan faces the most terrific encounters of his adventure-crammed life when, rescuing the beautiful Jana, known as The Red Flower, he falls into the hands of the reptile-men who, astride gigantic lizards, move with lightning speed and relentless ferocity to spread terror throughout the land. This book uses the First Edition text.