Publisher's Synopsis
"And thus in the midst of a city of wild conflict, filled with the alarms of war; with death and destruction reaping their terrible harvest around her, did Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, true daughter of Mars, the God of War, promise herself in marriage to John Carter, Gentleman of Virginia." Civil War veteran John Carter finds himself mysteriously transported from a cave in Arizona to the planet Mars, called Barsoom by its inhabitants - and these inhabitants include the four-armed, giant green Tharks, and the red-skinned race of the incomparably beautiful princess, Dejah Thoris. Swashbuckling action and enthralling imagination were the hallmarks of Edgar Rice Burroughs, and they are in abundance in his novel A Princess of Mars.
