A Princess of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Feb 2016 · Barsoom Book 1 · Open Road Media

About this ebook

Transported to Mars, a Civil War veteran fights to rescue a princess in this classic science fiction adventure story from the creator of Tarzan

Prospecting in the mountains of Arizona, John Carter is attacked by Apache warriors. Cornered in a cave, he thinks his life is finished, but when he emerges, the Apache are nowhere to be seen and the landscape is like nothing on Earth. John Carter has been transported to Mars—and the universe will never be the same.
 
The shift in gravity gives Carter superhuman powers of strength, speed, and agility. On Earth, he was but a man. On Mars, he is a god. And he will need all the power he can muster, for the red planet—called Barsoom by its inhabitants—is in the grips of its own civil war. To save the legendary Princess Dejah Thoris, Carter must defeat legions of giant, four-armed green barbarians and travel thousands of miles across a landscape populated with monstrous flora and fauna.
 
The first volume in Edgar Rice Burroughs’s beloved Barsoom series, A Princess for Mars is one of the wildest and most imaginative tales ever told.
 
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Ratings and reviews

I listened to the librivox recording by Mark Nelson and absolutely love the John Carter as a character. Mark Nelson does a wonderful job narrating the book, and I have since listened to many more Mark Nelson librivox recordings, mostly of the other Barsoom series books

As I began reading I was concious of the marks of old age upon this 1912 book. But the story pulled me in and I soon forgot them as I got to know the characters and followed the many twists and turns of the plot.

this book is awesome, however it is sad that it is no longer free from Google as it was a few years ago.

About the author

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950) worked as a cowboy in Idaho, a gold miner in Oregon, a railroad policeman in Utah, and a department manager for Sears Roebuck in Chicago before achieving lasting fame with Tarzan of the Apes, the first in a series of novels about a man raised by giant apes in the African jungle. Burroughs also created the iconic science fiction hero John Carter and was named by Ray Bradbury “the most influential writer, bar none, of our century.”