Tanar of Pellucidar

By Edgar Rice Burroughs

Tanar of Pellucidar was written in the year 1929 by Edgar Rice Burroughs. This book is one of the most popular novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.

This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Booklassic
• Release date: Jul 7, 2015
• ISBN: 9789635221486

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) is the creator of Tarzan, one of the most popular fictional characters of all time, and John Carter, hero of the Barsoom science fiction series. Burroughs was a prolific author, writing almost 70 books before his death in 1950, and was one of the first authors to popularize a character across multiple media, as he did with Tarzan’s appearance in comic strips, movies, and merchandise. Residing in Hawaii at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941, Burroughs was drawn into the Second World War and became one of the oldest war correspondents at the time. Edgar Rice Burroughs’s popularity continues to be memorialized through the community of Tarzana, California, which is named after the ranch he owned in the area, and through the Burrough crater on Mars, which was named in his honour.

Reviews for Tanar of Pellucidar

[davewilde-1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

"Tanar of Pellucidar" is the third of the seven Pellucidar novels by Burroughs. It was written many years (in fact decades) after the first two books and thus it is clear that Burroughs originally intended the Pellucidar series to only consist of two books. Pellucidar is Burroughs' inner-earth world, five hundred miles inside the earth's crust, where there is a perpetual noon-day sun and the land area is much greater than the outer earth's atmosphere. Men in the inner-earth are at the cavemen level except for those who David Innes and Perry enlightened with information they brought back in the prospector. The empire they constructed having rid themselves of the Mahars has progressed in relative peace for many years, but for the advent of someone else who has come from the outer crust and its no one you would suspect. Apparently, hundreds of years earlier, mighty pirates by accident sailed into the inner earth through a polar opening and never found their way out again. They set up a pirate or Korsair kingdom on a distant continent and loot and riot wherever they go.

In a raid upon the shoreline of the Empire, Ghak's son, Tanar, is seized among with many others and taken to Korsair City, where Tanar falls for the daughter of the Cid, the king of the pirates and must escape or rot in prison for life, knowing that the Korsairs are bent on taking on the Empire. It is yet another fabulous Burroughs adventure and written and plotted quite brilliantly. The advent of the Korsairs - a power to rival the Empire set up by Innes and Perry - is totally unexpected and simply brilliant on Burroughs' part. Who would have thought a pirate ship would be sailing upon the oceans of Pellucidar?
Highly recommended. Terrific adventure story.

[andyray_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

instead of david innes and queen diann, the two in this book are tanar and stelluva (sp). they are cqptured by the Korsairs (big, burly, whiskered men who look a lot like Vikings). A storm comes up and sets them free and they go to Stelluva's people. Then they are fighting Korsairs again, captured, then escape; fighting, capture, escape. Finally a happy ending wrapup in three pages. David Innes is there, but he is in the back, back, background. On the last page, he is in a pitch black, smelly, concrete room with a bunch of snakes. Of course, the next book will rescue him. I've read three of these in a row and it's getting old. Think I'll take a break.