Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs / Year: 1875- 1950 / Genre:Sci-Fi David Innes is a mining heir who finances the experimental "iron mole," an excavating vehicle
designed by his elderly inventor friend Abner Perry. In a test run, they discover the vehicle
cannot be turned, and it burrows 500 miles into the Earth's crust, emerging into the unknown
interior world of Pellucidar. In Burroughs' concept, the Earth is a hollow shell with Pellucidar
as the internal surface of that shell.
Pellucidar is inhabited by prehistoric creatures of all geological eras, and dominated by the
Mahars, a species of flying reptile both intelligent and civilized, but which enslaves and
preys on the local stone-age humans. Innes and Perry are captured by the Mahars'
ape-like Sagoth servants and taken with other human captives to the chief Mahar city
of Phutra. Among their fellow captives are the brave Ghak, the Hairy One, from the
country of Sari, the shifty Hooja the Sly One and the lovely Dian the Beautiful of Amoz.
