Pellucidar (Cosimo Classics Literature)

The hunters upon whom Hoojas men had fallen had brought back the meat of a great thag. There would be a feast to commemorate the victory-a feast and dancing. I had never witnessed a tribal function of the brute-folk though I had often heard strange sounds coming from the village where I had not been allowed since my capture. Now I took part in one of their orgies. It will live forever in my memory. The combination of bestiality and humanity was oftentimes pathetic and again grotesque or horrible. Beneath the glaring noonday sun in the sweltering heat of the mesa-top the huge hairy creatures leaped in a great circle. They coiled and threw their fiber-ropes; they hurled taunts and insults at an imaginary foe; they fell upon the carcass of the thag and literally tore it to pieces; and they ceased only when gorged they could no longer move. Edgar Rice Burroughs created one of the most iconic figures in American pop culture Tarzan of the Apes and it is impossible to overstate his influence on entire genres of popular literature in the decades after his enormously winning pulp novels stormed the publics imagination. Pellucidar first published in 1915 as the thrilling sequel to At the Earths Core is science-fiction adventure at its most engaging. Here David Innes continues his exploration of the subterranean world of Pellucidar encountering the stone-age savages who live there and battling the intelligent lizard-people who rule this underground domain. American novelist EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS (1875-1950) wrote dozens of adventure crime and science fiction novels that are still beloved today including Tarzan of the Apes (1912) At the Earths Core (1914) A Princess of Mars (1917) The Land That Time Forgot (1924) and Pirates of Venus (1934). He is reputed to have been reading a comic book when he died.