Edgar Rice Burroughs ~5 hr read

In the timeless inner world of Pellucidar, beneath a sun that never sets, the young warrior Tanar is captured by the cruel seafaring Korsars, and a message from that lost land reaches the surface.

Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1929 novel is a rousing lost-world adventure, third in the Pellucidar series. Vivid, thrilling, gloriously imaginative. Read it for classic ERB at the Earth's core, prehistoric beasts, savage pirates, love and treachery, in the eternal-noon world beneath our feet.

In its time

Published in 1929, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

~5 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Roy G. Krenkel