Written in 1944 Land of Terror is the penultimate book in the Pellucidar series and one that was never serialized as it was rejected by all his usual publishers. Having read it I’m not all that surprised.
Tag: At the Earth’s Core
Tanar of Pellucidar: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
First published as a six part serial for Blue Book Magazine in 1929, the third book of the Pellucidar series shifts its focus away from David Innes to a native of the Earth’s Core by the name of Tanar. This installment has one of the more awkward narrative devices employed by Burroughs that leads to the…
Pellucidar: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
When last we saw David Innes, he was stranded with his Iron Mole in the Sahara desert. Lucky for him a friendly group of Arabic travelers befriended him and helped rig up a gantry to send him and his Mahar “companion” back to the Earth’s core. If you were to make a list of defining…
At the Earth’s Core: Book vs Movie
If ever there was to be a king of lost cities or lost civilizations that king would be Edgar Rice Burroughs; Tarzan couldn’t swing fifteen feet through the jungles of Africa without running into some ancient lost city or another, and of course there is The Land That Time Forgot where dinosaurs still roam the…