Polaris of the Snows

Tarzan's Only True Rival! From the pages of the magazine that gave birth to Tarzan of the Apes comes Charles B. Stilson's immortal classic, Polaris of the Snows, a magnificent adventure of a boy raised in the Antarctic wilderness who grows to be a giant of a man whose physique is nearly impervious to the frigid cold of the wastelands and whose iron muscles are the equal of those of the mightiest polar bear. Raised by a taciturn old man, Polaris has never seen any other humans or known any other life. Then the old man's death and a promise to carry a message North to civilization sets Polaris on an adventure that will try him body and soul. First, he meets the young American heiress, Rose Emer, cut off from her party and lost in this world of frozen white. Then the two of them stumble into a strange inner world, where they fid the strange civilization of Sardanes, preserved like a hot house flower for thousands of years by the heat of nearby volcanoes. There Polaris will discover his love for Rose Emer even as he has to fight against hopless odds to save her and a world from being the helpless victims of a cruel despot. While in the outer world, a man who wants Rose searches the icy wastes, determined that no one but he will return with her, mad with lust for her fortune. Here in the immortal tradition is an unforgettable classic of thrilling adventures of a fur-clad Viking waif of the ice flows in a fantastic hidden empire beyond the South Pole.