A Princess of Mars 

By
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Transported to a Dying World. Transformed by Love.
John Carter has no idea how he got there. One moment, he is a Confederate veteran and gold prospector hiding in a cave in Arizona. The next, he is staring up at the two strange moons of Mars—a planet the natives call Barsoom.

On this dying, red world, an Earthman's lighter gravity gives Carter superhuman strength and leaping ability, but he finds himself a bewildered, nude prisoner of the fierce, nomadic Green Martians, a twelve-foot-tall, four-armed warrior race. He is forced to learn their customs, fight for his life in their savage arenas, and win the loyalty of a "huge and hideous creature with a heart of gold".

His destiny, however, is sealed when he encounters the Red Martians: human-like beings struggling to survive on a world with dwindling air and resources. Among them is Dejah Thoris, the beautiful, black-haired Princess of Helium, whose life hangs in the balance as the various nations of Barsoom struggle for supremacy.

Carter, the stranger from Earth, finds himself elevated from prisoner to champion and chief, thrust into a devastating interplanetary war for the survival of the Martian civilization. Now, he must fight not just to save himself, but to win the heart of the princess and safeguard a world he has come to love, a world he fears he may never be able to leave—or worse, a world he may soon lose forever.

A groundbreaking masterpiece of pulp fiction and the first novel in the legendary Barsoom series, Edgar Rice Burroughs's A Princess of Mars is a timeless adventure of epic romance, strange creatures, and intergalactic warfare.