Barsoom

<p>Over one hundred years ago in 1911 Edgar Rice Burroughs (the creator of Tarzan) introduced an astonished readership to the adventures of John Carter a Civ-il War soldier from Virginia who in 1866 found himself trans-ported to the planet Mars. Or as the natives called it Barsoom. The first novel was A Princess of Mars and it was followed by ten more books over the next 30 years; plus countless comic books and in 2012 a spectacular Disney movie <em>John Carter.</em></p><p>Enthralled readers encountered the incomparable Martian Princess Dejah Thoris; four-armed giant Green Men; hideous blue Plant Men; Thoats Calots Banths Apts White Apes and other multi-legged Martian beasts. Burroughs' Barsoom was a dying world of ancient ruined cities dry seabeds desert-spanning canals towering mountains polar ice caps dense forests and under-ground rivers.</p><p>These were the first sci-fi adventure tales ever written that took place on another world with alien races civilizations and creatures-and they pre-ceded and inspired every subsequent extra-planetary adventure series from Flash Gordon to Star Trek and Star Wars.</p><p>But despite locating the adventures of John Carter on the canal-covered Mars depicted by Victorian astronomers Burroughs never provided a map showing the locations of his Barsoomian cities and other features. Over the past century many fans have tried to compile such a map but none have truly succeeded. Until now.</p><p>Painstakingly referencing clues in all eleven books plus astronomical observations of the Red Planet spanning a hundred years noted historian and cartographer Oberon Zell has created the definitive map of Burroughs' Barsoom. This book details that process with three dozen colorful maps and other illustrations a history of Barsoom over the past million years and a Gazetteer for all locations mentioned in the novels.</p>