
Serve yourself, your children with the tools that seed intuitive thinking skills, books that challenge and enrich the imagination. Take them back to the time before the mind-controlling television and electronic games to the origins of the ideas that gave birth to these electronic miracles. - BOOKS that fuel the creative processes of the human imagination. Edgar Rice Burroughs was one such man and author that enriched the minds of many a person.
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About the Author
Edgar Rice Burroughs is one of the world's most
popular authors. With no previous experience as an
author, he wrote and sold his first novel--'A Princess
of Mars' in 1912. In the ensuing thirty-eight years until
his death in 1950, Burroughs wrote ninety-one books
and a host of short stories and articles. Although best
known as the creator of the classic Tarzan of the Apes
and John Carter of Mars, his restless imagination knew
few bounds. Burroughs's prolific pen ranged from the
American West to primitive Africa and on to romantic
adventure on the moon, the planets, and even beyond
the farthest star.
No one knows how many copies of ERB books have
been published throughout the world. It is conservative
to say, however, that with the translations into
thirty-two known languages, including Braille, the
number must ran into the hundreds of millions. When
one considers the additional worldwide following of
the Tarzan newspaper feature, radio programs, comic
magazines, motion pictures, and television,
Burroughs must have been known and loved by literally
a thousand million or more.
THE RETURN TO PELLUCIDAR
DAVE INNES came back to Sari. He may have been
gone a week, or he may have been gone for years. It
was still noon. But Perry had completed his aeroplane.
He was very proud of it. He could scarcely wait to
show it to Dave Innes.
"Does it fly?" asked Innes.
"Of course it flies," snapped Perry. "What good
would an aeroplane be which did not fly."
"None," replied Innes. "Have you flown it yet?"
"No, of course not. The day of the first flight is going
to be epochal in the annals of Pellucidar. Do you
think I'd fly it without you being here to see?"
"That's mighty nice of you, Abner; and I appreciate
it. When are you going to fly it?"
"Right now, right now. Come and see it,"
"Just what do you propose using an aeroplane for?"
asked Innes.
"To drop bombs, of course, just think of the havoc
it will raise! Think of these poor people who have
never seen an aeroplane before running out from
their caves as it circles overhead. Think of the vast
stride it will be in civilizing these people! Why, we
should be able to wipe out a village with a few
bombs."
"When I went back to the outer crust after the Great
War that ended in 1918," said Innes, "I heard a lot
about the use of aeroplanes in war; but I also heard
about a weapon which causes far more suffering and
death than bombs."
"What was that?" demanded Perry, eagerly.
"Poison gas," said Innes.
"Ah, well," said Perry, "perhaps I shall put my mind
to that later."
Dave Innes grinned. He knew that there was not a
kinder hearted person living than Abner Perry. He
knew that Perry's plans for slaughter were purely
academic. Perry was a theoretician, pure and simple.
"All right," he said, "let's have a look at your plane."
Perry led him to a small hangar-a strange anachronism
in stone-age Pellucidar. "There!" he said, with
pride. "There she is; the first aeroplane to fly the skies
of Pellucidar."
"Is that an aeroplane?" demanded Innes. "It certainly
doesn't look like one."
"That is because it utilizes some entirely new principles," explained Perry.
"It looks more like a parachute with a motor and a
cockpit on top of it."
"Exactly!" said Perry. "You grasped the idea instantly
yet there is more to it than the eye perceives.
You see one of the dangers of flying is, naturally, that
of falling; now, by designing a plane on the principles
of a parachute, I have greatly minimized that danger."
"But what keeps it in the air at all? What gets it up?"
"Beneath the plane is a blower, operated by the
engine. This blows a strong current of air constantly
straight up from beneath the wing; and, of course, the
air flow, while the ship is in motion supports it as is
true in other, less advanced, designs; while the
blower assists it in quickly attaining altitude."
"Are you going to try to go up in that thing?" demanded
Innes.
"Why, no; I have been saving that honor for you.
Think of it! The first man to have flown in the heavens
of Pellucidar. You should be grateful to me, David."
Dave Innes had to smile; Perry was so naive about
the whole thing. "Well," he said, "I don't want to disappoint
you, Abner; and so I'll give the thing a trialjust
to prove to you that it won't fly."
"You'll be surprised," said Perry. "It will soar aloft
like a lark on the wing."
A considerable number of Sarians had gathered
to inspect the plane and witness the flight. They were
all skeptical, but not for the same reasons that David
Innes was skeptical. They knew nothing about aeronautics,
but they knew that man could not fly. Dian
the Beautiful was among them. She is Dave Innes's
mate.
"Do you think it will fly?" she asked Innes.
"No."
"Then why risk your life?"
"If it doesn't fly, there will be no risk; and it will
please Abner if I try," he replied.
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