A Princess of Mars

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 sixlimbed olive-green giants he wins respect as a cunning and able warrior who by grace of Marss 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.