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Southern Exposure
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After "First Exposure", "White Boys" and "L.A. Boys", here comes the latest and greatest from Sam Carson. Carson continues in his unique style with this fourth book of photography, presenting his men at ease and with an extremely pleasant and seductive reserve. The photographer hates complicated staging, thus leaving enough room for quiet erotic moods to unfold. Sam Carson presents unknown faces and fresh, youthful bodies over this 80-page work.
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- Hot, Steamy and a Must-Have!!
- heated romantic suspense
- The Follow-up To "Southern Comfort"!
- Southern Exposure is a keeper
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Southern Exposure
Karen Kelley
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Hot, Steamy and a Must-Have!!.......2005-06-23
What a great follow-up to Southern Comfort. Ms Kelley certainly knows how to keep a reader up all night. I couldn't put this book down. Logan is one of the sexiest characters I've seen in a while. He knows how to make the ladies pant! Jody is definitely equal to the task of taming him though. The bayous of Louisiana provided an excellent backdrop, adding its own blend of mystery and hot sexy nights. With each release Ms Kelley demonstrates over and over the depth of her talent. I hope she keeps 'em coming.
heated romantic suspense .......2005-04-21
For her birthday, the girls take patrol officer Jody Dupree to a strip joint where she watches Logan Hart perform. That night Jody and Logan celebrate her birthday by themselves. However, by morning light Jody is gone.
New Orleans Gazette columnist Logan challenged his readers to send him jobs to perform as he insists he can handle anything for a shift even stripping. His next assignment is patrolling the mean streets of the Big Easy alongside of Jody. As their attraction grows, Logan senses a mystery with Jody. He makes inquiries and soon learns of an unsolved murder from her childhood. If he reveals her secret he could make his career but endanger the woman he loves that is if he understands the threat to Jody if he publishes his report.
Karen Kelley provides a heated romantic suspense starring two likable protagonists, the return of the lead couple from SOUTHERN COMFORT (cleverly closing their tale), and a journalistic ethics issue to add to the solid drama. The story line starts off in an amusing way, but twists into a hot police procedural as Logan patrols with Jody before spinning into a private investigative plot when he makes inquiries into her mysterious past. The transitions are smoothly done as are the romance and love between the lead duet. Ms. Kelly writes a gripping thriller that the audience will wonder whether Logan chooses fame and fortune or love.
Harriet Klausner
The Follow-up To "Southern Comfort"!.......2005-04-18
Ms. Kelly has penned another fast page turning read that fans of romantic suspense/paranormal romance will find very entertaining.
Jody Dupree has been living life in the shadows waiting for the past to finally catch up with her present. Her friend Andrea is bound and determined that her friend have fun on her birthday. She takes Jody to a strip club and there Jody meets her future. Logan Hart is the first man that has moved her. One naughty dance later they find themselves sharing one night that neither can forget. Jody sneaks out while Logan sleeps but she can't run from her destiny.
Logan is a newspaper reporter looking for the one story that will land him his dream job as editor. His latest assignment calls for him to take on different jobs. One job is that of stripper for one night. This one job will lead him to the story of a lifetime and the one woman he can't get out of his head. When he finds out that Jody is hiding something from him he will do what it takes to find out what has his beautiful lady scared. Will he be able to balance the feelings he has for Jody with his need to write the story of the year? Will Jody finally realize that she can allow people close to her without losing it all?
This was a very steamy read with dynamic and compelling characters. This is without a doubt a stand alone read even though it's the second part of a series. In other words you won't be missing anything accept another good read if you've not read "Southern Comfort." Jody and Logan are wonderful protaganists and there story is very emotional. I love stories like that. Ms. Kelly is an author I think we should keep our eyes on.
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Southern Exposure is a keeper.......2005-04-12
Southern Exposure by Karen Kelly delivers an emotional, steamy, fascinating read.
Logan Hart, popular reporter had been challenges by his readers to do any job for a day. His current assignment was being a stripper in a local hot spot.
Cop Jody Dupree needed a night out with her friend. One look at the hot stripper was all it took and they were at a motel. Jody snuck out leaving Logan alone and confused.
Jody and Logan were both shocked to find that Jody's boss had assigned Logan to ride along with her for a month. Soon the passion Jody tries to ignore becomes impossible to live without. Secrets and lies from her childhood threaten her and Logan's newfound happiness.
Southern Exposure is a wonderful sequel to Southern Comfort. The chemistry between Logan and Jody is off the charts. WOW. Their growth as a couple was a pleasure to watch unfold. I really liked how Fallon and Wade showed up to conclude the story.
Karen Kelley writes with such passion and flair. She is an auto-buy.
Sequel to Southern Comfort is a must read!.......2005-03-27
Logan Hart had challenged the readers of his newspaper that he can do any job for a day so that's how he found himself on center stage in a strip club getting ready to take off his clothes for a bunch of screaming women. New Orleans' Police Officer Jody Dupree's best friend Andrea has dragged her to the club for her birthday, determined that Jody is going to have fun if it kills her. One scandalous dance later Logan and Jody find themselves in a motel and having an unforgettable night together. They both find themselves connecting on an emotional level to the other but while Logan is sleeping Jody sneaks out. And since neither were honest about themselves Logan has no idea how to find her. They both get the shock of their lives when Logan starts his next article and Jody is assigned to take him on patrol with her. He's determined that Jody is going to let him inside and due to the tragedy of her past Jody is determined that she can't afford to be involved with anyone. Especially since she's inherited her mother's ability to have visions of the future, visions that have shown her that Logan's life is in danger. Now, with a killer after Jody can Logan protect her while convincing her that he can take care of himself and that visions or no visions he plans on sticking around.
Southern Exposure is the sequel to Karen Kelley's Southern Comfort. Those who haven't read Southern Comfort missed a treat but will find that Southern Exposure easily stands alone. Readers who had the pleasure of reading Southern Comfort will enjoy Wade and Fallon's appearance in this book. Both Logan and Jody are wonderful characters who readers will fall in love with. Add to this the much awaited anticipation of Jody and Fallon finding each other again, the secondary love story between Logan's brother Kevin and Andrea, along with lush love scenes and a crazy swamp living grandmother and Souther Exposure will have readers waiting anxiously for Karen Kelley's next book.
Melissa
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In this epic tale of sea-kayaking adventure, award-winning author Chris Duff places readers in the cockpit of his 18-foot kayak and lets them experience the full power and beauty of the South Pacific Ocean and the wild energy of the Tasman Sea as it thunders onto New Zealand's uninhabited west coast. Not just an account of human physical endurance and determination to attempt what had only been accomplished once before, this exquisitely written narrative reveals the philosophical and psychological life of a man who has chosen the sea as the master to sit before and to learn from. The intense and often terrifying sea journey is balanced by serendipitous meetings along the way with friendly New Zealanders and with the diverse wildlife of this tiny and remote island country. Southern Exposure is a force of writing that will captivate the armchair adventurer as well as the seasoned ocean traveler.
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A remarkable journey, well-told .......2007-03-05
Chris Duff's humility is one of the many striking attributes of a finely-written account of an often nerve-wracking and dangerous journey around New Zealand's South Island by sea kayak. Duff reminds us of the power and beauty of nature that so many of us have forgotten, lulled by the comforts of city life, and introduces the characters living around the coast whose goodness and moral support helped him get through the ordeal.
You don't have to be a kayaker to enjoy this book, but if you are, then you can empathise much more with the many challenges he faced. I was out there on the water with him, edging into the waves, fearing the surf, dwarfed by the Fiordland's cliffs. Well done, and thanks for sharing the experience!
Enjoyable.......2007-01-10
I took this book with me on a trip to New Zealand, and enjoyed reading it as I learned first hand the island's crazy seas, and the many interesting facts about the country. At times the author can be a little long winded, but I thought it was well written for a trip that inherently has so much repetition. If you like sea kayaking, nature, and adventure stories, I would recommend this book. If you get to a slightly boring part about being with one with the boat and sea, just keep reading, and more adventure is sure to follow.
somewhat engaging but flawed.......2006-01-07
Unfortunately, I do not quite share the enthusiasm expressed by the other reviewers. Although Duff is an excellent descriptive writer, the numerous descriptions and philosophical musings in this book tend to go on and on needlessly; I do not need to read three pages about what it was like to find two apples in the ocean and eat them, or read description after description of the joys and epiphanies one experiences while paddling in a remote area. A little of that goes a long way.
I guess the upshot is that I was looking for an exciting adventure story, and what I got was perhaps the most thorough description of the New Zealand South Island's coastline, coastal waters, and weather patterns ever written. If you are looking for an "Into Thin Air"-type battle against the odds, keep looking. Although the journey required considerable paddling skills and Duff faced a few close calls, overall the book records little actual adversity aside from large waves and days of waiting out storms -- often in homes of hospitable New Zealanders rather than on his own.
I also agree with other reviewers that the photos are mediocre and certainly are not "stunning," as the back of the book claims.
Absolutely fantastic........2005-07-06
A couple of years ago I saw Chris Duff speak at Canoecopia - a worldwide paddling expo held in Madison WI. One of his talks was about his solo circumnavigation of New Zealand's south island - the same topic as this book.
I, and I think the rest of the audience, was mesmerized as he told his tale. Even though he probably has talked about his trip many times it felt as if he was reliving it for the first time. His ecitement was contagious. The audience could almost feel the ocean swells and smell the salty air.
Chris Duff is as good of a writer as he is a public speaker. He vividly describes the scenery of his voyage, the people he encounters and his own personal thoughts. While, his adventures are WAY beyond my personal abilities I could actually feel what it would be like in his shoes (or in this case fast drying sandals) due to his excellent writing ability.
Wow, Voyager!.......2004-12-04
By Bill Marsano. Chris Duff's photos, which are bundled together and whacked a little perfunctorily into the middle of this book, limp under the heading of 'snaps.' Duff belongs to the old school of kayakin' shutterbugs: compose any old how, so long as the bow of the boat is in the frame; shoot in any old light; and shoot, sometimes, any old subject. There's a darn nice snap of a Hooker seal here but what I really wanted was more pix of the damage (and later repairs) to his boat from the surf landing that nearly killed him. I'm just saying. (And the maps are even worse--clear, but seldom helpful.)
Never mind: This is a book of writing. Duff seems to have had no specific reason to try a 1700-mile circumnavigation of New Zealand's South Island (it's not even a first) but he is no virgin. He's looped the British Isles and then Ireland; he's paddled 8000 miles along the east coast of Canada and the U.S.; even now he may be paddling round Iceland.
He, too, gets into a little gauzy mysticism about the Eternal Why and his place in the universe, but most of the time he's a little too busy for that stuff. South Island's coast is a place that goes from bad to worse, and it's instructive to listen in as Duff relates his tactics and strategies for dealing with bad weather and dangerous, even life-threatening situations: You can learn from this stuff as well as be staggered by it. And just for lagniappe there are those occasional moments of perfect weather and following seas that surf him along in solitary joy. These usually come along just after the notoriously perverse Tasman Sea has, as they say south of here, "prit-near" beaten him to a pulp.
A particular pleasure of this book is the human aspect. Despite the solitary aspect of his circumnavigations, Duff is a sociable man who enjoys and appreciates the people he meets--and appears to bring out the best in them. Add that to the fact that Kiwis are notably kind and generous anyway and you are not surprised that Duff makes friends everywhere he goes and they bend over backwards to help him in every way they can.
Judging from the indications in the text, it's clear that Duff prepared extremely well for this voyage, and readers should pay close attention as they go along, because--probably because this stuff is bred into his bones by now--Duff spends very little time discussing equipment at the end. In fact, he's done with the subject in a single page.
There's one incident in this book that commands my admiration and will yours. I don't want to give anything away but at one point Duff receives some help of a rather expensive kind, and his response is to pull out his credit card. "No worries, mate," he's told, officialdom is budgeted for that. All very well, but Duff insists on paying his own way. He is well aware of the fact that a well-behaved guest doesn't batten on his hosts.--Bill Marsano is an award-winning editor and writer whose own kayaking voyages fill only pages, not books.
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Southern Exposure: The Story of Southern Music in Pictures and Words
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Bob Carlin
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Capturing a time when music was an integral part of life, this richly illustrated book documents, in revealing photographs and evocative descriptions, the wide variety of musical styles of the American South. Photos and text drawn from the archives of the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, and rarely seen private collections focus on life from the 1850s to World War II. Emphasizing how music was a part of daily life-at home for dancing and recreation, in church for worship and ceremony, on the job as an accompaniment to work-the book celebrates the vitality of the American South's musical life.
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Only OK.......2000-11-27
Expecting great things, I was frankly a little disappoined in this book. There are unpublished photos that are interesting, but the graphic quality of many of the reproductions is only fair. I found more than a few innacuracies regarding the instruments and dates. The text is frankly uninspiring. If you are an amatuer ethnomusicoligist as I am, it is one to keep on the shelf for reference that is true, but as a definitive work it is sorely lacking. I also found it to be surprisingly short. Given the breadth and depth of the subject, the paucity of the text and photos is alarming. So, for me it was OK but not really a top shelf choice.
Worth buying for the photos.......2000-09-18
I love the photos in this book. Large black and white photos of early bands in the south. Clear picutes of early insturments and band members and their clothing. There was one photo I've seen before--the one of the Cajun couple--but most of the others were fresh photos that I had not seen. There is a text history of Southern Country music--but this book is worth buying for the historical photos alone.
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In this era of rapid globalization, increasing poverty and inequality are among our most urgent problems, leading not only to unspeakable misery but also providing fertile fields for anger, despair, and violence. In Southern Exposure, Barbara Thomas-Slayter examines the changes brought about by globalization from the perspective of ordinary people in the Global South, such as small farmers in Kenya, coca growers in Bolivia, or garment workers in Bangladesh, highlighting both the diversity of their experience and common themes.
Using an issues-based approach and keeping questions of gender and culture to the fore, Thomas-Slayter establishes a context of fragile states, economic vulnerability, struggles over resources and identity, and growing human rights concerns in an increasingly inter-connected and inequitable world. She explores key political and economic challenges facing Southern countries as they engage with the global system and identifies critical issues that will shape twenty-first century developments including the continuing spread of AIDS, the intense pressures for migration within and across national boundaries, food security, and the relationships among population growth, scarce resources, and environmental degradation. The final chapter identifies key voices from the South which are grappling with the emerging choices that face our world in the coming decades.
This book will become a widely adopted introductory text on development issues for undergraduate students, and the many case studies will provide general readers with a fascinating overview of the world as experienced from the Global South.
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Excellent for Graduate Students as well.......2004-02-20
Having just finished reading Southern-Exposure from cover to cover (but not in one sitting), I feel compelled to give you some positive-positive feedback! As one who now teaches only graduate seminars on international rural development, I wish I had read something like this years ago.
I began international development work for Michigan State University in 1960, and worked in Nigeria until after the Biafran war had started in 1967. Since then my wife and I have had numerous international assignments in many different countries -- some the same places in which you give small cases. Our longest periods of residential assignments have been in Nepal and then in India and Bhutan. But prior to that each of us has worked with rural people in the many different parts of the Global South -- in Africa, Asia, and Latin America -- for UNICEF, for FAO, for host governments, etc.
If only we could have read a book like this in 1960! Over the years, we have prepared dozens of professionals for international development work; and had hundreds in class. Your back cover says: "This book will become a widely adopted introductory text on development issues for undergraduate students..." It will also become widely used for graduate students! Actually, I have already assigned it for a book review by one of the students in my current on-line graduate seminar.
Almost perfect.......2004-01-22
I've been teaching "Third World Politics" for about 10 years and have yet to find the "perfect" textbook. "Southern Exposure" comes closest to meeting my expectations. I look forward to using the book and hope that my students will enjoy it as much as I did.
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Southern Exposure (Florida Sand Dollar Book)
Stetson Kennedy
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Using thorough and stark statistics, Kennedy describes a South emerging from World War II, coming to grips with the racism and feudalism that had held it back for generations. He includes an all-out Who's Who, based on his own undercover investigations, of the "hate-mongers, race-racketeers, and terrorists who swore that apartheid must go on forever." This first paperback edition brings to a new generation of readers Kennedy's searing profile of Dixie before the civil rights movement.
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Southern Exposures : Five Plays About Life in the South
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- A beautiful, elusive literary tradition
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Southern Exposure: Modern Japanese Literature from Okinawa
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The Setting Sun
ASIN: 0824823001 |
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Modern Okinawa has been forged by a history of conquest and occupation by mainland Japan and the United States. Its sense of dual subjugation and the propensity of its writers to confront their own complicity with Japanese militarism imbues Okinawa's literary tradition with insightful perspectives on a wide range of issues, including the ongoing discrimination against ethnic minorities in both Japan and the United States and the conflicting desires for Okinawa's assimilation to, and autonomy from, mainland Japan.
But Okinawa's literary tradition is as deeply rooted in the region's lush semi-tropical landscape as in the forces of history. In the hands of skillful writers, the brilliant flora and dense forests, the pastel waters and coral reefs, are revealed as sites not only of breathtaking beauty but of horror and depredation. Okinawans' quest to recover their region's ancient cultural heritage is invariably haunted by the phantoms of war and occupation, phantoms that have been all but effaced from the mainstream literature of contemporary Japan. Yet as this anthology demonstrates, Okinawan writers often suffuse their works with a lyricism and humor that disarms readers while bringing them face to face with the region's richly ambiguous legacy.
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A beautiful, elusive literary tradition.......2004-02-26
Very little of Okinawan literature has been translated into English, and this book exemplifies why that's such a shame.
This volume provides the reader with not only a chance to explore a culture that Americans know too little about (considering the tremendous influence/destruction we've wrought in Okinawa), but highlights a rich and wonderful literary tradition that gets little to no attention in the west. Buy this book!
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When David Innes and Abner Perry set out to search for mineral deposits in Perry's newly invented Mechanical Prospectro, they never dreamed of discovering the beautiful, terrifying world of Pellucidar five hundred miles beneath their feet. Cast into a country of fierce fighting men, beautiful women, and vicious beasts, David and Abner take sharply diverging paths. David and his mate, Dian the Beautiful, set out to teach Pellucidar the ways of civilization and succeed in gathering a number of primitive kingdoms into the Empire of Pellucidar. Meanwhile, Abner turns his inventive genius to the science of aeronautics, with dire results for both David and Dian. The seventh and final book in Edgar Rice Burroughs's Pellucidar series, Savage Pellucidar continues the epic story with a masterful blend of action, humor, and suspense.
Harry Turtledove provides an introduction for this Bison Books edition.
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Savage Pellucidar (Inner Earth #7) (Ace SF Classic, 75131)
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Manufacturer: Ace Books
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The Last Gasp of ERB.......2006-08-16
A paradox, a paradox
We've heard in flocks.
But not quite like this paradox.
Edgar Rice Burroughs died in 1950. The first Hugo was awarded in 1953. Yet one year, a Burroughs story was nominated for a Hugo-- and I do not mean for a "retrospective" Hugo. It competed against a number of modern short stories. How did this come to pass?
In the early 1960s, in the midst of a "Burroughs boom" among book publishers, Burroughs's son Hulbert discovered an unpublished novella in a safe. The story was the fourth of a series of Pellucidar stories that appeared in _Amazing_ between 1941 and 1942. (The others were "The Return to Pellucidar," "Men of the Bronze Age," and "Tiger Girl.")
The new story, "Savage Pellucidar," was published for the first time in the October, 1963 issue of _Amazing_ to a certain amount of fanfare. It was nominated as one of the best pieces of short
fiction for the year. (And was beaten by Poul Anderson's "No Truce With Kings.")
The four stories were assembled into a "fixup" novel in 1963, _Savage Pellucidar_, the seventh and last Pellucidar book. I have a certain fondness for it because of its unusual publishing history. But honesty compels me to say at the outset that it is really not a very good novel. It features Abner Perry, David Innes, Dian the Beautiful, Hodon the Swift, O-aa the cave girl, and the cannibal who is _not_ named Dolly Dorcas as they bumble about from one aimless capture-and-escape episode to another. The villain, Fash, is a bit smarter. But not much. The traps he sets (and which the heroes fall into) wouldn't fool a normal nine year old child.
Sometimes Burroughs compensates for such faults by a kind of mythical, dreamlike dazzle to the setting. But myth is best done with a poker face, and _Savage Pellucidar_ is written strickly for laughs. It does not tap into the world of dreams, and it shows us little that is new about Pellucidar. There is a certain good cheer to the stories that is somewhat mitigating. (They were, after all, written just before World War II, and have the optimism of the day.) But _Savage Pellucidar_ remains the weakest book in the series.
The final Pellucidar adventure is a standard ERB yarn.......2003-11-26
"Savage Pellucidar" was the seventh and final volume in the Pellucidar ("At the Earth's Core") series of Edgar Rice Burroughs, which makes it the third longest ERB series behind the adventures of Tarzan and the Martian books. What we have here are three novellas that were originally published in "Amazing Stories" in 1942 ("The Return to Pellucidar," "Men of the Bronze Age," and "Tiger Girl"), along with a fourth ("Savage Pellucidar") that was published later.
"The Return to Pellucidar" has David Innes, the Emperor of Pellucidar, finally settling an old score with Fash, the King of Suvi. "Men of the Bronze Age" actually has to do with their efforts to find both Dina the Beautiful, who flew off in Abner Perry's balloon, and O-aa. This continues in "Tiger Girl," where one of the damsels in distress is rescued, with the other being saved in "Savage Pellucidar" (and Abner planning to make a submarine).
This brings the Pelluicdar adventures, which have taken place over 40 years at the Earth's Core while 150 have passed in the world above, to a close. "Savage Pellucidar" is a below average ERB adventure, following the standard pattern (the hero has to find and rescue the woman he loves), but there is nothing really new in terms of the wonders of Pellucidar. You can put this one in the ERB pot-boiler category.
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Great Vintage Collection of Tarzan Tales inside the Earth!.......2007-09-25
I always enjoyed Tarzan running around the jungle etc etc but when he made his way "back into a land time forgot" in the Pellucidar series of tales at the earth's core fighting dinos and sabertooths and mastodons and cavedudes -- well, heck! How cool was that! So get the series of tales here all together.
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David Innes, now Emperor of Pellucidar visits Fash, the King of Suvi to depose him from his throne as punishment for taking Dian the Beautiful prisoner. With his hand-picked band of warriors Innes sails the EPS Sari to Amoz where he begins the trek to Kali. Hodon, the Fleet One, is sent ahead to tell Oose, King of Kali, of Innes' visit, but he is deceived into delivering his message to Fash, who has already taken the realms of Kali. With the typical plot machinations for which Edgar Rice Burroughs is renowned, Savage Pellucidar, the fifi nal book of the Pellucidar: the Inner World series, delivers all the excitement and adventure that lovers of Burroughs' books have come to expect.
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The definitive Edgar Rice Burroughs 21st century editions........2007-05-26
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 volume contains the last Pellucidar novel. Lesser Burroughs and lesser Pellucidar but still better than most contemporaries.
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Savage Pellucidar
Manufacturer: Canaveral Press
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