Edgar Rice Burroughs was born in 1875 in Chicago, Illinois. Although Burroughs wrote in many genres he is best known for creating the jungle hero Tarzan. Burroughs began writing for pulp fiction magazines and in 1912 he published Tarzan of the Apes. At the earth's Core is the story of the inventor Perry. Perry has invented a burrowing prospector that runs out of control. He and an assistant end up at the center of the earth. They discover a world a beauty and savagery. In this land humans are the slaves to reptiles and dinosaurs roam the land with other strange creatures.