Rediscover the adventure-pulp classic that gave the world its first great interplanetary romance--now featuring an introduction by Junot D az In 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 vapors. 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 six-limbed, 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.
John Carter first appeared in 1912 in the pages of
The All-Story magazine and immediately entered the dream-life of American readers young and old. He was Edgar Rice Burroughs's favorite among his many creations and remains a favorite of lovers of science fiction and fantasy everywhere.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Library of America
Published: 04/12/2012
ISBN: 9781598531657
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 7.30h x 5.00w x 1.30d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 76087 / Princess of Mars
Reading Level: 9 /
Interest Level: Upper Grade /
Point Value: 13