The original interplanetary swashbuckler: John Carter is a fighting man of Earth (or is he?) transported suddenly to the surface of a strange planet full of fierce green giants, savage white apes, and noble but warlike humans -- including the one he loves.
The result was A Princess of Mars -- and the launching of the literary career of one of the most prolific, successful authors in history..
Then one day, while working as a wholesale representative for a going-nowhere pencil sharpener maker, Burroughs decided to while away some of the extra time by getting started on a crazy story to submit to one of the pulp fiction magazines.
Cavalry soldier, an industrial gold miner, a railroad policeman, a door-to-door salesman, a store owner and a serial entrepreneur.
By the time he sat down to write his first novel, A Princess of Mars, he had been a high-plains cowboy, a U.
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About the Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs came to the craft of fiction writing late in life, after trying his hand at a wide variety of trades and business ventures.
This collection, gracefully and unobtrusively annotated, comprises the first three books of the series, which combine as a Trilogy to tell the story of Captain Jack Carter\'s adventures among the many strange civilizations of a dying planet.
But can he save her from the doom that threatens to destroy the entire planet? In a little over 100 years, the Martian tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs have changed the literary world, launching science fiction as a literary category and inspiring generations of young readers to spin their own wildly imaginative tales of distant planets and strange civilizations.
The original interplanetary swashbuckler: John Carter is a fighting man of Earth (or is he?) transported suddenly to the surface of a strange planet full of fierce green giants, savage white apes, and noble but warlike humans -- including the one he loves
