Nationalising and Denationalising European Border Regions, (GEOJOURNAL LIBRARY Volume 53)

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During the last two centuries, the political map of Europe has changed considerably. More recently, there are remarkably contrasting tendencies concerning the functions and densities of borders. The borders inside the European Union lost their importance, whereas Central and Eastern Europe saw the birth of a multitude of new state borders. The long-term study of border regions, therefore, is a fascinating subject for geographers, historians, social scientists, and political scientists. The main thesis of this book is that the rise of the modern nation-state reinforced the separating function of state borders by nationalising the people on both sides of it. This process gained strength in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and was challenged in the second half of this century by processes of supra-national integration, globalisation and the revolution in communication and transport, as the case studies from different parts of Europe of this book will show.
Audience: This book will be of interest to academics, researchers and practitioners in geography, history, political sciences, European studies and East-European studies.

The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy

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Not Kaplan's best but well worth while
No need to write a long review
One of the most eye-opening accounts about Africa
wow! how can someone possibly accumulate, sort, and process so much information?
Maybe outdated, but full of interesting observations

The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy
Robert D. Kaplan
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Release Date: 1997-01-28

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"The future here could be sadder than the present," writes Robert Kaplan in a chapter about the African nation of Sierra Leone. From Kaplan's perspective, the same could be said of virtually the entire Third World, which he spends the bulk of this book visiting and describing. Kaplan, an acclaimed foreign correspondent and author of Balkan Ghosts, is congenitally pessimistic about the developmental prospects of West Africa, the Nile Valley, and much of Asia. This traveler's tale offers dire warnings about overpopulation, environmental degradation, and social chaos. We should all hope that Kaplan's forecast is wrong, but we ignore him at our peril.

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Author of Balkan Ghosts, Robert D. Kaplan now travels from West Africa to Southeast Asia to report on a world of disintegrating nation-states, warring nationalities, metastasizing populations, and dwindling resources. He emerges with a gritty tour de force of travel writing and political journalism. Whether he is walking through a shantytown in the Ivory Coast or a death camp in Cambodia, talking with refugees, border guards, or Iranian revolutionaries, Kaplan travels under the most arduous conditions and purveys the most startling truths. Intimate and intrepid, erudite and visceral, The Ends of the Earth is an unflinching look at the places and peoples that will make tomorrow's headlines--and the history of the next millennium.

"Kaplan is an American master of...travel writing from hell...Pertinent and compelling."--New York Times Book Review

"An impressive work. Most travel books seem trivial beside it."--Washington Post Book World

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Not Kaplan's best but well worth while.......2007-07-26

First a few criticisms: Kaplan covers a monster amount of ground in this book without developing a cohesive narrative element. For instance a journey along the Silk Road would have an obvious narrative element. He could have developed even a contrived means of guiding the reader along. Perhaps he could have matched the footsteps of Alexander the Great, or used geology or some common element to give continutuity and guidance to the reader. Some might argue he uses the common travails of the developing world to link his travels but instead he spent most of his time explaining how Iran wasn't Turkey for example. I think this lack of cohesion can confuse the reader. But ultimately, Kaplan is not for light reading. He is not intent on amusing. And he is very interested in giving the reader the unvarnished world as he sees it.

So while I criticize Kaplan for not being Thoreaux of some other great travel writer it may also be his greatest strength. Kaplan is his own State Department, CIA and Assocaited Press. He gives background derived from copious research. He offers experiential comparisons. He draws on local sources. All balanced with what can almost be called objectivity.

At times, Kaplans near love fest with Iran annoyed. But it is hard to fault someone with experience well beyond that of any diplomat or common reporter.

All in all, this is not his best book but still extremely enjoyable and worth reading.

No need to write a long review.......2007-06-18

Because all I have to say is that this is an outstanding book. Incredibly in depth, the bibliography itself is worth reading if only to garner more reading materials. Made me wish I had Lexis at home, to access some of the older articles he references. Kaplan won me over completely when he exhibited reverence for Kapuscinski in the section on Iran.

Read one of Kaplan's books, you won't regret it.

One of the most eye-opening accounts about Africa.......2007-05-05

Kaplan has got to be one of the best foreign journalists of our day. I especially could not put down the first section on Africa, where he describes the Third-World regions of equatorial Africa with such precision that the disgust, nausea, and blood-ridden condition of many of these people was almost like a pop-up picture book in it's concrete detail. His stark realism is absolutely stunning in describing (from a secondary source) the difference between the developed nations and Africa proper:{paraphrase}" A stretch limo with US. Britain, Europe, Canada, and parts of Latin America inside, cruising alongside the dirt roads of oblivion where everyone else is going a different way." This book has awesome power to it.

wow! how can someone possibly accumulate, sort, and process so much information?.......2007-01-20

Robert Kaplan is my favorite non-fiction writer. I have read almost everything he has written. This book was the first book of his that I read -- it prompted me to read many more. This author is absolutely brilliant in processing information, making relationships among trends, and communicating them to others. He's also brilliant at survival because he goes to places few would even imagine contemplating. This particularly book is extraordinarily well cited and substantiated with sources.

Maybe outdated, but full of interesting observations.......2006-09-19

The Ends of the Earth reflects the experiences and thoughts of Robert Kaplan (a regular contributor to the Atlantic Monthly) while travelling in some "corners" of the world, in the mid 90s. Among others, the visited countries included Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Togo, Egypt, Turkey, Iran, Uzbekistan, Kyrzygistan, China, Pakistan, India, Thailand and Laos.

Kaplan's focus seem to be a mix of history, geopolitics and cultural travelling. He makes an effort to provide some historical context to help the reader better understand the reasons for the cultural and political situation of each place. And he is always trying to wonder what the future may bring in these not-so-well-known regions of the world.

The book might be interesting for independent travellers who want to know a little more about these places, as a complement to the typical touristic guide (like the Lonely Planet). It is also rewarding if the reader is just curious about how things were (or are) in these places. An interesting advantage is that Kaplan himself did this whole tour, and therefore his reflections have the same base. Kaplan is able to notice the difference between Uzbeks and Tajiks, the female behaviour in Iran (which seems to be slightly different that what Westerners usually would expect), and so on.

It should be noted that Kaplan's travels happened in the mid 90s. Many things have surely changed since then in many of the visited places (ex: India, Thailand, Iran, Pakistan). This does not diminish the value of the book, but must be considered to avoid misunderstandings.

I, personally, found the beginning too slow. And it took me a good while to finish the whole book.
Actually, would have given the book a 3.5 rating if I could.

Notwithstanding this, I still am glad of having read it. It gave me a view about life in these countries; something with more depth and thought than a typical travel book/blog.

However, the reader must not expect a revolutionary work that "explains everything". This is just a "intelligent travel" work, not a geopolitical analysis piece.

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Wonderful captivating and eye opening
Wonderful captivating and eye opening
Highly reccomended!

Between Earth and Sky
Karen Osborn
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Wonderful captivating and eye opening.......2003-11-24

This is my all time favorite book. It is so real. The whole letter writing thing. It brings out the personality changes in Abigail when she relocates with her family out west during the civil war. Maggie her sister that she dearly loves changes too but in a negative way. In a way of being narrowminded and not understanding the selfless way that Abigail has become bieng on her own and working the harsh dry and hot land in New Mexico. The Mesa (mountains) are her love and she writes about them quite often to Maggie back home in the East. Not only does Abigail learn to fall in love with this harsh southern land but she allowed me to fall in love with it too and to be for her through the entire story. To want to jump into the pages and help her. Help her through the hard droughts and to feed her children that she bore alone in her hut on the land.
A great book for everyone.
A must read.

Wonderful captivating and eye opening.......2002-02-13

Highly reccomended!.......1998-11-27

I read this novel in a day. It was a really captivating novel, and I think the idea of telling the story in letters worked well. Abigail is a woman whose home has been destroyed by the Civil War. She, her husband, and their young children leave the South to start a new life out West. Abigail writes back to her sister Maggie in Virginia of how she comes to love the harsh but beautiful New Mexican landscape. I am 13 and even though this was a novel meant for adults, I think teens who like historical fiction could enjoy it.

Contesting Neoliberalism: Urban Frontiers

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Contesting Neoliberalism: Urban Frontiers

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ASIN: 1593853203

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Neoliberalism's "market revolution"--realized through practices like privatization, deregulation, fiscal devolution, and workfare programs--has had a transformative effect on contemporary cities. The consequences of market-oriented politics for urban life have been widely studied, but less attention has been given to how grassroots groups, nongovernmental organizations, and progressive city administrations are fighting back. In case studies written from a variety of theoretical and political perspectives, this book examines how struggles around such issues as affordable housing, public services and space, neighborhood sustainability, living wages, workers' rights, fair trade, and democratic governance are reshaping urban political geographies in North America and around the world.

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The Andes (Frontiers in Earth Sciences)

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ASIN: 3540243291

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This book will provide the first comprehensive overview of a complete subduction orogen, the Andes (considered to represent the type subduction belt on Earth), integrating the results from a wide variety of methods. For example, our results provide the so far densest and most highly resolved geophysical image of an active subduction orogen. Dense geodetic data and a range of geological observations complement these results. These all contribute towards a process-oriented understanding of the mechanisms driving subduction orogeny in its various manifestations. We plan to provide the results which were accumulated during 12 years of integrated research, by covering all fields of Earth Sciences in the various contributions to the volume, in a range of formats including a CD-Rom with maps, geological sections, geophysical results and a data depository. These may be complemented by an existing web site that will be further developed in close contact with the planned book.

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Interesting but unpolished
Earth, the New Frontier
It wasn't bad
Only halfway through and WOW!!!
Well, I liked this book

Earth, the New Frontier
Adam Celaya
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ASIN: 1413728375

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When the much-heralded stellar event of the century turns into global catastrophe, mankind finds itself facing almost certain extinction as the sky begins to fall. As the world grows deathly cold in an atomic winter, a handful of survivors in Arizona strike out for their last chance of survival. Making their way over what is left of the broken roads and highways, they struggle to outrun not only the elements but also a growing army of escaped convicts. Led by a discredited soldier named John Hammond, the small caravan of survivors learns that they have no choice but to unite or die. Earth, the New Frontier is a story of everyday people under adverse conditions. With death never more than a step behind them, the characters face insurmountable challenges as they struggle for their very existence.

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Interesting but unpolished.......2007-08-21

I found this to be a fair thriller and I did appreciate the spin on the post-apolcalyptic theme (what does happen to the incarcerated when the world ends? Apparently they become homicidal maniacs). However, I could not get away from the feeling this was a first attempt, writer's group type of novel. Many characters were stereotypes and the dialogues were a bit wooden. However, there was enough of a plot and human interest to sustain this reader to the end.

Earth, the New Frontier.......2007-01-10

I really enjoyed the story overall. It has a little too much bad language to be read by children but if adults will read it with a "bleep" on the offending words, I think they will enjoy it. The plot is quite plausible.

It wasn't bad.......2006-08-06

I liked it. Rough editing, typos, definately a first book, but still I liked it. The people, the scenery, the pace. I'd read a trilogy if it were longer.

Only halfway through and WOW!!!.......2006-05-13

So I wanted to go to bed early last night so I picked this book up and started reading. Its true what everyone says that the first chapter is hard to get through but once your past that...A punch in the face. I was up till 1am reading cause I couldn't put the book down. Author Adam Celaya has an amazing way of making you care for a character. He pulls no punches either. Just when you think he is about to introduce a new character they get killed off in a terrible way. This keeps you on the edge of your seat! If you like End of the World books, this is a must.

Well, I liked this book.......2006-03-02

I got this book through Bookcrossing (sent to me as a RAOK) and didn't think it was bad. I liked the characters, didn't mind the gun talk (at least it was accurate) I also liked a lot of the stuff that he thought up about their survival. Most people (like that jag who posted before me) don't even know what an Indian fire is. I would like to have seen better editing, my sister published through the same publisher and they actually put more errors into the manuscript.

At the Earth's Core (Bison Frontiers of Imagination)

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into the depths
inside the earth
Welcome to Pellucidar
Through Time and Space With Edgar Rice Burroughs
A strange world

At the Earth's Core (Bison Frontiers of Imagination)
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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ASIN: 0803261748

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Five hundred miles beneath the earth's surface lies a fantastic, timeless world of eternal daylight, prehistoric beasts, and primeval peoples-Pellucidar. Pellucidar is a world within our world, a place where the horizon curves upward and merges with the sky. Here time stands still, for Pellucidar is illuminated by a miniature sun that never sets but hovers motionless in the sky. Scattered throughout the savage, prehistoric wilderness are communities of distrustful humans and the cities of the reptilian, highly evolved Mahars. David Innes and Abner Perry break through into this mysterious inner world. Their discovery of Pellucidar and the ensuing struggle to unite the human communities and overthrow the Mahars is a top-notch, thrilling tale of conquest, deceit, and wonder. This commemorative edition features an introduction by Gregory A. Benford and an afterword on the science of At the Earth's Core by Phillip R. Burger. Also included are a map of Pellucidar, a glossary of terms and names by Scott Tracy Griffin, a contemporary review, and the classic J. Allen St. John illustrations. Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) is the legendary author of dozens of novels, including The Land That Time Forgot, also available in a Bison Frontiers of Imagination edition. Gregory A. Benford is a celebrated science fiction writer and a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine. His most recent novel is Cosm. Phillip R. Burger is associate editor of The Burroughs Bulletin.

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into the depths.......2007-05-23

I have always been a fan of ERB since I was about twelve. I am over fifty.
As an adult one realizes that ERB might not get published today. His books are simple good vs. evil tales that still have the power to ring your heart with his prose. At the Earth's core was not his best series nor his worst The Venus ones hold that distinction I think. Probably the best book in the series is Tarzan at the Earth's core. This volume is a good introduction and once you have read it you can decide whether to read any of the other's you probably will!

Bill Hash author of AMRA availble through amzon.com

inside the earth.......2007-05-15

outstanding! what a story...the characters were so real that as i read the book i was right along side David and the Professor in their journey to the center of the earth... great reading!..

Welcome to Pellucidar.......2007-04-20

This is the first book in Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Pellucidar" series. After the standard *how I came to know this story* bit, it doesn't take long to get straight into the action. The heroes are an athletic and wealthy young man (David Innes) and an inventive old fellow (Abner Perry). Perry has invented a wonderful digging machine... that gets locked on course. Thus the two men wind up... At The Earth's Core!
They are no sooner in this strange land than they incounter megatheria, ape-men with prehensile tales, ape-men without tales, intelligent pterosaurs, cavemen whose favorite greeting is "I kill!" and the lovely Dian (a wonderful cavegirl with a rather ordinary name). Can they escape with their lives, save Dian, and free the human race from the heartless reptilian overlords?
There are some continuity errors (blame it on the weird timelessness?) and I think the next book in the series is better, but this one is good. Well worth reading, and I've bought it, loaned it, didn't get it back, and gotten it for Christmas.

Through Time and Space With Edgar Rice Burroughs.......2006-08-16

There have been a number of well written citiques of scientific blunders in the writings of Edgar Rice Burroughs. David Langford (1982) makes a convincing case that the notion of a hollow Earth had long been discredited by scientists when Burroughs published the first Pellucidar novel in 1914. Nor does Burroughs seem to have followed any single pseudo-scientific scenario very closely. His "research" was probably limited to a few newspaper and popular magazine articles.

But in _The Trillion Year Spree_ (1986), Brian W. Aldiss argues that such scientific criticism is not relevant in an an evaluation of the settings of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Burroughs "is not interested in the facts of the external world" (163). Rather, he is "reporting from his own internal Pellucidar. Burroughs's Mars, like Ray Bradbury's later Mars, reports on areas which cannot be scrutinized through any telescope" (163). Burroughs "wants us to identify, to sink into his dream countries and exclude the outside one" (165).

Well, then. What are the basic characteristics of this internal Pellucidar? It is a retreat to the primitive. Mars, Pellucidar, Venus, and Africa are all low-tech worlds. It is a rejection of urban culture, something of a protest against the rising urbanization and population growth of the time. It was conservative, offering mythic extensions of the Americain west at precisely the same time that the Old West was closing off. And it was anti-intellectual and somewhat irrational in nature. Burroughs frequently praised the common sense of soldiers, fighting men and "common people" and satirized the follies of scientists. (In _At the Earth's Core_, the inventor Abner Perry is portrayed as loveable but foolish.)

This anti-intellectualism may be seen in Burroughs's treatment of the concepts of space and time in _At the Earth's Core_. Space is distorted in several of Burroughs's settings, but certainly the most spectacular example is the horizonless world of Pellucidar. Here is David Innes's first view of it:

As far as the eye could reach out the sea continued and upon its bosom floated tiny islands, those in the distance reduced to mere specks; but ever beyond them was the sea, until the impression became quite real that one was _looking up_ at the most distant point that the eyes could fathom-- the distance was lost in the distance. (20)

While Pellucidar is actually limited in size, it does not _appear_ to be limited. One of the effects of a horizonless world is that it has no visible boundaries. The sense of disorientation that characters feel in this world gives the reader a sense that it is virtually unmappable. Finally, Burroughs uses a simple but effective trick with Pellucidar to make it appear bigger: He makes Pellucidar three quarters land and one quarter water. Thus, while the total area of Pellucidar is really smaller than the surface area of Earth, the total _land_ area is greater. The reader is convinced that there is in fact an almost unending frontier inside the Earth.

In Pellucidar, time is also distorted (as it is in other Burroughs settings as well). In Pellucidar, the sun at the center of the Earth keeps Pellucidar in perpetual daylight. Since there are no cycles of night and day, Burroughs claims that this results in a world of variable time. (This is sort of like arguing that if the clocks have stopped in your house, so has the passage of time.) Two characters may separate and then rejoin one another. For one character, months may have passed, while for another only hours have passed. Yet Burroughs does not simply claim that time is relative in Pellucidar. He has Innes assert that it is nonexistant. "How may one measure time," he asks, "where time does not exist!" (39)

Why these treatments of time and space? First, I think it is to satirize the rationalism of those egghead scientists. See how ridiculous their theories really are! Second, I believe that it is a bit of a revolt against the Protestant work ethic and factory schedules. But mostly,I think it is to create a world in which heroes and heroines can remain perpetually young, vigorous, and attractive. The new frontier of Burroughs is a kind of perpetual preadolescent state.

Aldiss's attack on scientific critiques of Burroughs has some justification. Surely it is not terribly important at this late date to demonstrate that his work was full of scientific errors. But it _does_ seem reasonable to ask questions regarding Burroughs's logic in the development of his setting. He was reasonably effective in playing tricks with the reader's sense of space. But he was content to use only a few rhetorical tricks in order to suspend the laws of time. His treatment of time must be considered a weakness in his setting.

A strange world.......2006-06-22

This is another one of Edgar Rice Burroughs' "scientific romances". Many early sci-fi writers wrote "Hollow Earth" stories, about civilizations in the center of the Earth. This is ERB's take on that. It is a totally implausible story, but it's darn entertaining. A young man and an old man travel to the center of the Earth by way of a digging machine. There they encounter prehistoric humans, dinosaurs and a race of intelligent reptiles. This being Burroughs, the young man naturally meets a beautiful cave girl and falls in love. It's an entertaining read, especially if you like pulp fiction.

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HOW DO BOOKS LIKE THIS GET PUBLISHED?
Great Book!
Got Earth?
Earth Energy: The Charlatan's Frontier
"E" Is For Earth, Children

Earth Energy: The Spiritual Frontier
Mary Ellen Flora
Manufacturer: CDM Publications
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ASIN: 1886983038

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Every facet of planet Earth is changing. Read this book and gain a spiritual perspective about these changes. You can learn to experience and work with the energies of the Earth. Learn about your personal relationship with the Earth, the energies of your physical and astral bodies, and various forms of spiritual communication with earth.

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HOW DO BOOKS LIKE THIS GET PUBLISHED?.......2006-04-06

I cannot imagine anyone actually enjoying this book. The ideas are simplistic, the author's voice irritating and pedantic, and she seems to violate the first rule of spirituality by implying that her book contains all the answers.

The most striking thing about the book is how the author claims that she asks her minions to seek out their own answers, yet it appears, from reading the book that what she truly means is that they should seek their own answers as long as they agree with her proclamations. The book has so many stories about all the bad things that happened when people disagreed with or chose to ignore the author's advice and opionions, yet it claims she wants spiritual freedom! Truly a contradiction, if you ask me.

I am so sorry I bought this new age cultish nonsense. I should have just stuck with the classics! I advise any true seeker to do the same.

Great Book!.......2006-04-02

This book was easy to read, and full of timeless truths. I would recommend it to anyone who is ready to move forward.

Got Earth?.......2005-01-31

Of course you do. You live on it. That's about all you'll learn from this book. This book didn't do one thing it promised. It didn't help me at all.

Earth Energy: The Charlatan's Frontier.......2005-01-22

According to Ms. Flora, the Earth is a great, big schoolhouse where we come to learn lessons. I certainly learned a lesson here. I learned the value of never buying another of Ms. Flora's series of books. The books, Earth Energy included, give information anyone can find on-line, speak in pedantic tones, and are filled with threats about what happens to people who don't listen to Ms. Flora's fabulous advice. Of course, she doesn't call it advice--she calls it "spiritual truth" but the only spiritual truth you'll learn by reading this book or any of her others is the one spoken by P.T. Barnum--"There's a sucker born every minute."

"E" Is For Earth, Children.......2005-01-17

This entire book reads like a Sesame Street episode. No, wait, I take that back because it's insulting to Sesame Street. Sesame Street is fun, entertaining, teaches children information without talking down to them, and isn't full of itself. Now, take that sentence and add "not" before fun, delete "without" and "while", change "isn't" to "is" and you basically have an accurate idea of what this book does.

Pellucidar (Bison Frontiers of Imagination)

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Even better than the first book.
Leonaur Ltd. is publishing the definitive Edgar Rice Burroughs 21st century editions.
Lost on Pellucidar
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ASIN: 0803262043

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At the Earth's Core, return to the world of Pellucidar—an exotic, savage land at the center of the Earth, an untamed wilderness where the sun never sets. When American explorer David Innes first discovered Pellucidar, he fell under the spell of the strange world, earning the respect of many, the undying hatred of a few, and the love of the beautiful Dian. Torn from her arms by trickery, Innes vows revenge and returns to the Inner World to seek his lost love.

Innes breaks through the earth's outer crust, far from his beloved, and is forced to cross a fierce, unyielding world to reach her. Innes's epic journey through the many strange lands of Pellucidar, including the Land of Awful Shadow, which lies beneath the brilliantly conceived pendant moon, and his heart-pounding encounters with prehistoric beasts and strange peoples makes Pellucidar one of Edgar Rice Burroughs's most rousing adventures.

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Our trip through the earth's crust was but a repetition of my two former journeys between the inner and the outer worlds. This time, however, I imagine that we must have maintained a more nearly perpendicular course, for we accomplished the journey in a few min- utes' less time than upon the occasion of my first journey through the five-hundred-mile crust. Just a trifle less than seventy-two hours after our departure into the sands of the Sahara, we broke through the surface of Pellucidar.

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Even better than the first book........2007-04-20

This is the sequel to At The Earth's Core. Some of the reviews here say that it isn't quite as good as the first. I happen to think that it's a little bit better. Burroughs seems to avoid some of the continuity errors he made in the first book, and really it's quite a worthy addition to any adventure-reader's library.

Leonaur Ltd. is publishing the definitive Edgar Rice Burroughs 21st century editions........2007-04-13

Leonaur Ltd. is publishing the definitive Edgar Rice Burroughs 21st century editions. These usually contain 2 books of the different ERB major series in order - thus far John Carter, Pellucidar, and Carson of Venus. In the future, possibly Tarzan!
These books are handsome and my rating is mainly based on this - the ERB fan knows best about the rest of it.
This second volume of Pellucidar novels reflects a sharp drop in quality form the first. Nevertheless, for completists, this beautiful edition is a must. And second grade ERB is usually better than most of other fantasy/science fiction/romance writers' first grade.

Lost on Pellucidar.......2006-07-02

This is the sequel to At the Earth's Core. That book ended with the hero, David Innes, back on the surface world and separated from his mate, Dian the Beautiful. In this book, he returns to Pellucidar to get her back. This is a formula in many Edgar Rice Burroughs books; the hero becomes separated from his lady love, and has a series of adventures until he is reunited with her. It may be a formula, but it's a successful one. Sure, the plots may be similar, but there are always different strange, exotic worlds to encounter. There was a reason ERB was the most popular pulp writer of his time. Fans of pulp fiction will enjoy this book.

The return to Pellucidar!.......2005-02-07

At the end of "At the Earth's Core", David Innes, our everyman-now-Emperor, has returned to the outer world, with an ugly reptilian Mahar instead of his lovely Dian.

He vows to return, and here, in the second book of this particular series, he does exactly that.

Once again, Burroughs' simple vivid prose describes one thrilling adventure after another, in full cinematic glory. There are brutal hand-to-hand combat scenes, jungle hunts, mountaineering escapades and even a sea-faring battle. All this in under 200 pages (per my Canaveral Press copy). ERB doesn't waste a lot of words.

You just have to love the lot of characters on display here. The names alone generate all sorts of mental images: King Gr-Gr-Gr, Hooja the Sly One, Ghak the Hairy One, the Mahars, the Sagoths, the massive lidi, the hyaenadons Raja and Ranee...

Over the course of two books, you'll be hard pressed NOT to cheer for the indefatigable David Innes. He's an old-fashioned, capital-H hero; plucky, smart and brave, yet human. After all, this adventure is what happens to him while he searches for his beloved Dian.

There are two high compliments I'd like to offer:

One, is that upon finishing one book I cannot wait to read the next.

Two, is that in this modern age of film, only with computer imagery could they reproduce the fabulous vistas of Pellucidar, with the overhead "horizons" and that low-lying, rotating pendant moon.

The compliment is that it would never be as "fabulous" as those ERB created inside my head.

A Feast for the Imagination.......2003-09-10

In this, his second novel set in the savage world of Pellucidar, Edgar Rice Burroughs returns his hero David Innes to the earth's core. In relatively formulaic ERB style, David's stone-age empress Dian the Beautiful has been stolen from him by Hooja the Sly One, and he sets off against daunting odds across a primitive world to rescue her. He is aided by advanced technology (such as firearms) brought with him from the surface, and the innovations of his dear friend, the scientist Abner Perry.

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