Edgar Rice Burroughs

A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Annotated) Unabridged Classic Edition "Planetary Romance, Fantasy, Science Fiction Novel"

The first published book by the creator of Tarzan of the Apes that introduced the world to intergalactic Civil War soldier, John CarterIn the spring of 1866, John Carter, a former Confederate captain prospecting for gold in the Arizona hills, slips into a cave and is overcome by mysterious vapours. He awakes to find himself naked, alone, and forty-eight million miles from Earth-a castaway on the dying planet Mars. Taken prisoner by the Tharks, a fierce nomadic tribe of sixlimbed, olive-green giants, he wins respect as a cunning and able warrior, who by grace of Mars's weak gravity possesses the agility of a superman. He also wins the heart of fellow-prisoner Dejah Thoris, the alluring, red-skinned Princess of Helium, whose people he swears to defend against their grasping and ancient enemy, the city-state of Zodanga.