A Princess of Mars

A Princess of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs the first of his Barsoom series. It's the beginning of an incredible odyssey in which John Carter a gentleman from Virginia and a Civil War veteran unexpectedly finds himself on to the red planet scene of continuing combat among rival tribes. Captured by a band of six-limbed green-skinned savage giants called Tharks Carter soon is accorded all the honor of a chieftain after it's discovered that his muscles accustomed to Earth's greater gravity now give him a decided advantage in strength. And when his captors take as prisoner Dejah Thoris the lovely human-looking princess of the city of Helium Carter must call upon every ounce of strength courage and ingenuity to rescue her-before Dejah becomes the slave of the depraved Thark leader Tal Hajus!