At the Earth's Core Summary
Edgar Rice Burroughs

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At the Earth's Core offers a diversion of wonder and adventure in which readers may become so enthralled they will forget their real-life troubles.

In the novel a noble-hearted young man participates in a daring experiment and then finds himself in a world inside the Earth, a world called "Pellucidar." Here, David Innes struggles to survive the many dangers of a primitive land, including fierce battles with prehistoric monsters, frightful creatures unknown to...

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