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At the Earth's Core

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

[1914]


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Burroughs set this classic Scifi/Fantasy novel in a version of the Hollow Earth which can only be reached by an advanced tunneling machine. Breaking through into the inner core, the adventurers find a world (Pellucidar) which physically resmbles Cyrus Teed's Cellular Cosmology, except that we are on the outside. Inside is a primitive world where dinosaurs still exist, and humans are not at the top of the food chain...


Title Page and Map
Prologue
I. Toward The Eternal Fires
II. A Strange World
III. A Change of Masters
IV. Dian the Beautiful
V. Slaves
VI. The Beginning of Horror
VII. Freedom
VIII. The Mahar Temple
IX. The Face of Death
X. Phutra Again
XI. Four Dead Mahars
XII. Pursuit
XIII. The Sly One
XIV. The Garden of Eden
XV. Back to Earth