Pellucidar Maps

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written by David Critchfield 02/08/03, all rights reserved

last updated 04/03/10

This article first appeared in the National Capital Panthans Journal #79, April of 2003 and was reprinted in the National Capital Panthans Journal Highlights Volume 4 for the 2006 ECOF in Rockville, Maryland.

 

Listed below are the Pellucidar maps to date. Click on the thumbnails for a larger version.  

1. - Edgar Rice Burroughs drew the first map of Pellucidar, which appeared in Part 1 of Pellucidar in All-Story Cavalier Weekly on May 1, 1915. It was not in Part 2 but reappeared in Parts 3 through 5 in All-Story Weekly. (The magazine changed its name.) It was reprinted on page 23 of the first edition of Pellucidar and appeared in the Grosset & Dunlap editions. It was the frontispiece of all Ace and Del Rey Pellucidar editions. It was on page 129 of the 1963 Dover omnibus, page 15 of the Bison Books edition, page 23 of the Amereon House edition, page 11 of the 2003 Dover and Castle editions, and included in the 2006 ERB Press edition. This map was published, along with maps of ten other ERB worlds, in An Atlas of Fantasy by J. B. Post in 1973. It was available in hardcover and softcover from Mirage. A revised edition in softcover was published by Ballantine in 1979.

map 1

2. - The second map, also drawn by Burroughs, covers more land area. It was first published in Blue Book Magazine in March 1929 to accompany Part 1 of Tanar of Pellucidar. The same map was also in Parts 2 and 3 the next two months but was not in the final three installments. It was reprinted in The Gridley Wave #10 in June of 1963.

map 2

3. - Mahlon Blaine drew a map that appeared in the 1962 Canaveral edition of Pellucidar. It was also used as the endpapers in this book. This map is more artistic than accurate.

map 3

4. - A map traced by Larry Ivie from notes and sketches by ERB decorates the endpapers of the 1963 Canaveral first edition of Savage Pellucidar. In Ivie’s own words from ERB-dom #16, April 1966, “…I was asked (when drawing the map for this edition) to follow the sketch Burroughs had included with the manuscript exactly, although he had also included a note asking the artist to please check the diagram with his previous ones, and with the text, to eliminate contradictions.” This map has Amiocap misspelled as Amiolap, and Anoroc misspelled as Anaroc. Also, the name Zurtz appears where the tribe of Zurts should be. The Zurtz error was reproduced in maps number 5, 6, 7, 12, 15, and 16.

map 4

5. - Bruce Wood’s first map, drawn in 1965, combines information from maps 1, 2, and 4. This is Fig. A in the article, Remapping Pellucidar, by Wood published in ERB Collector #40, November 1999.

map 5

6. - Wood combined his map number 5 with the additional locations from the fourth, fifth, and sixth books of the series to produce a map that appeared in The Burroughs Reader and Thuria in the spring of 1966. This is Fig. B in the article, Remapping Pellucidar, by Wood published in ERB Collector #40, November 1999. This map was also in A Quick Look at Pellucidar by Wood.

map 6

7. - Robert R. Barrett and Reed Crandall drew a map from notes and sketches by Gordon Benson and John F. Roy that appeared in ERB-dom #15 in February of 1966. This map is very detailed. For example, it is the first to show the location of Liba. It does continue the error of Zurtz that began with map number 4. Also, the village of Gombul is misspelled as Gambul.

map 7

8. - Frank J. Brueckel re-drew map number 1 in accordance with his theory that, in Pellucidar, the directions east and west are reversed relative to north and south. This is Fig. 5 in the article, On Pellucidarian Geodesy, published in The Burroughs Bulletin #19, Winter 1970.

map 8

9. - Brueckel drew an azimuthal projection centered on the North Pole depicting the lands visited in the fourth, fifth, and sixth books of the series. This map is Fig. 10 in the article, On Pellucidarian Geodesy, published in The Burroughs Bulletin #19, Winter 1970.

map 9

10. - Brueckel re-drew the lower portion of the "great peninsula". This is Fig. 12 in the article, On Pellucidarian Geodesy, published in The Burroughs Bulletin #19, Winter 1970.

map 10

11. - Brueckel drew another map, an interrupted projection showing the position of the inner world lands relative to those of the outer surface. This highly conjectural map (his words) is Fig. 13 in the article, On Pellucidarian Geodesy, published in The Burroughs Bulletin #19, Winter 1970.

map 11

12. - Larry K. Hancks did a centerfold map of Pellucidar in The Burroughs Bulletin #20, Fall of 1970. It was reprinted on one page in the Burroughs Bulletin New Series #6, April 1991. In my opinion, this is the most beautiful map to date. 

map 12

13. - A map of Pellucidar was included in the updated version of The Dictionary of Imaginary Places by Alberto Manguel and Gianni Guadalupi in 2000. This book was originally published in 1980 and probably contained the Pellucidar map. The German version from 1981 contained the map.

map 13

14. - Bruce Bozarth produced a color map in 1998 that accompanies Steve Servello’s Pellucidar Glossary. This map of Pellucidar covers the same area as map number 1.

map 14

15. - Bruce Wood modified map number 6 to produce a new map. This is Fig. C in the article, Remapping Pellucidar, by Wood published in ERB Collector #40, November 1999. This map is reproduced in color on his ERB CD Atlas. It was used in making Bruce’s globe that shows the Dead World, Pellucidar’s sun, and the polar opening.

map 15

16. - Eusebio Arias from Spain produced a map covering the same area as map number 1.

map 16

 

17. - Artist, Greg Phillips, created his map by taking an old Mercator projection of the world, reversing it to create a mirror image, and moving Bruce Wood’s Map 15 around to fit it. Then, with the known areas of Pellucidar filled it, Phillips finished off the rest of the inner world. This map was published in The Mucker Magazine #11 on May 25, 2009.

 

 

Links:

Bruce Wood's ERB Atlas, which includes maps number 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 11, 12, 15, and 16. 

Download Bruce Wood's desktop rotating globe which shows Pellucidar's eternal sun shining out a polar opening (2.32 MB .avi file zipped)

 

 

This listing was inspired by J. G. Huckenpöhler's, A Brief History of Barsoomian Cartography, from the National Capital Panthans Journal #74, November of 2002.

 

Sources:

Bruce Wood's ERB Atlas

On Pellucidarian Geodesy by Frank J. Brueckel published in The Burroughs Bulletin #19, Winter 1970

Remapping Pellucidar by Bruce Wood published in ERB Collector #40, November 1999

Price and Reference Guide to books written by Edgar Rice Burroughs by James A. Bergen, Jr. (1991)

ERB-APA #82, Summer 2004

A Golden Anniversary Bibliography of Edgar Rice Burroughs by Henry Hardy Heins (2001)

       Making a Map of Pellucidar by Greg Phillips published in The Mucker Magazine #11 on May 25, 2009

 

 

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