A Princess of Mars (Illustrated) Barsoom Series #1- Egar Rice Burroughs - Bitig Books Classics |
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| Illustrator:
| E. Schoonover, Frank |
| General Editor:
| Ismayilov, Yavar |
| Author:
| Burroughs, Edgar Rice |
| ISBN: | 979-8-5042-8819-2 |
| Publication Date: | May 2021 |
| Publisher: | Independently Published
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $7.99 |
Book Description:
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The story starts with John Carter as a successful gold prospector in Arizona. One day in 1866 he sends his business partner James K. Powell into town to pick up new equipment. As the day wears on, however, he begins to have a terrible feeling that Powell has met with some bad luck, and goes out to search for him. He finds Powell dead, having been killed by a hostile ribe of Apaches who chase after Carter. He seeks refuge in a cave and shortly thereafter falls asleep. When he wakes up...
More DescriptionThe story starts with John Carter as a successful gold prospector in Arizona. One day in 1866 he sends his business partner James K. Powell into town to pick up new equipment. As the day wears on, however, he begins to have a terrible feeling that Powell has met with some bad luck, and goes out to search for him. He finds Powell dead, having been killed by a hostile ribe of Apaches who chase after Carter. He seeks refuge in a cave and shortly thereafter falls asleep. When he wakes up he is unable to move and becomes aware that he's not alone in the cave.He desperately tries to break his paralysis and suddenlyfinds himself naked and looking down at his own body, still lying immobile on the floor of the cave. Panicked, he runs outside and sees Mars in the night sky. He reaches out his arms to the distant planet and suddenly feels himself pulled through space. He ends up on Mars, called "Barsoom" by its inhabitants. Carter finds that he has great strength and superhuman agility in this new environment as a result of its lesser gravity. He soon falls in with a nomadic tribe of GreenMartians, or Tharks, as the planet's warlike, six-limbed, greenskinned inhabitants are known. Thanks to his strength and martial prowess, Carter rises to a high position in the tribe and earns the respect and eventually the friendship of Tars Tarkas, one of the Thark chiefs. The Tharks subsequently capture Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, a member of the humanoid Red Martian race. The Red Martians inhabit a loose network of city-states and control the desert planet's canals, along which its agriculture is concentrated. Carter rescues Dejah Thoris from the green men in a bid to return her to her people.