''Savage Pellucidar'' is a 1963

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story collection by American writer

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, the seventh and final book in his series about the fictional "

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" land of Pellucidar. It was published twelve years after Burroughs's death. Like a number of other posthumously published books by Burroughs, this book is not a novel but a collection of short stories. The first three stories, ''The Return to Pellucidar'', ''Men of the Bronze Age'' and ''Tiger Girl'', were published in the magazine''

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''in February, March, and April 1942. The fourth story, ''Savage Pellucidar'', was published for the first time in November 1963 after being discovered in a safe by Burroughs' son Hulbert in the early 1960s.

Stories

*"The Return to Pellucidar" *"Men of the Bronze Age" *"Tiger Girl" *"Savage Pellucidar"

Plot

*In "The Return to Pellucidar", David Innes goes for a war and becomes a

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again, while Abner Perry makes a balloon which escapes with Dian the Beautiful in it. *In "Men of the Bronze Age", Dian meets the people who have advanced to a

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cultural level and is taken to be a goddess. *In "Tiger Girl", David Innes goes after Dian in another balloon and plays the role of a god. *In "Savage Pellucidar", two separate search parties look for the lost ones with neither knowing that the other has already found the one they are seeking.

Copyright

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for this story was renewed in the United States on 9 December 1991 by

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(renewal reference number: RE0000570901). The copyright should therefore expire in the United States on 1 January 2059. The copyright for this story has expired in Australia, and thus now resides in the

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there. The text is available via

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References

External links

Free Ebook from Project Gutenberg of Australia
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* ttp://www.erblist.com/erblist/savagepell.html Edgar Rice Burroughs Summary Project Page for ''Savage Pellucidar'' {{Burroughs (books) 1963 short story collections Fantasy short story collections Science fiction short story collections Short story collections by Edgar Rice Burroughs Works originally published in Amazing Stories