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Title: A Princess of Mars
Condition: New
Subtitle: A Library of America Special Publication
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Contributor: Junot Díaz (Introduction by)
Format: Hardback
ISBN-10: 1598531654
EAN: 9781598531657
ISBN: 9781598531657
Publisher: The Library of America
Genre: Fiction
Topic: Science Fiction
Release Date: 12/04/2012
Description: Rediscover the adventure-pulp classic that gave the world its first great interplanetary romance—now featuring an introduction by Junot Díaz
 
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.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 191mm
Item Length: 133mm
Item Width: 27mm
Item Weight: 445g
Release Year: 2012

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