A Princess of Mars Audiobook Libro.fm

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A Princess of Mars is a science fantasy novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs the first of his Barsoom series Full of swordplay and daring feats the novel is considered a classic example of 20thcentury pulp fiction It is also a seminal instance of the planetary romance a subgenre of science fantasy that became highly popular in the decades following its publication Its early chapters also contain elements of the Western The story is set on Mars imagined as a dying planet with a harsh desert environment This vision of Mars was based on the work of the astronomer Percival Lowell whose ideas were widely popularized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries John Carter a Confederate veteran of the American Civil War goes prospecting in Arizona immediately after the wars end Having struck a rich vein of gold he runs afoul of the Apaches While attempting to evade pursuit by hiding in a sacred cave he is mysteriously transported to Mars called Barsoom by its inhabitants Carter finds that he has great strength and superhuman agility in this new environment as a result of its lesser gravity and lower atmospheric pressure He soon falls in with a nomadic tribe of Green Martians or Tharks as the planets warlike sixlimbed greenskinned inhabitants are known Thanks to his strength and martial prowess Carter rises to a high position in the tribe and earns the respect and eventually the friendship of Tars Tarkas one of the Thark chiefs The Tharks subsequently capture Dejah Thoris Princess of Helium a member of the humanoid red Martian race The red Martians inhabit a loose network of citystates and control the desert planets canals along which its agriculture is concentrated Carter rescues Dejah Thoris from the green men in a bid to return her to her people