Edgar Rice Burroughs ~5 hr read

Tara of Helium, headstrong daughter of John Carter, is swept by storm into the land of the horrid, headless Kaldanes and the perfect-bodied Rykors, and into deadly Martian chess.

This Finnish edition presents Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1922 'The Chessmen of Mars,' a beloved Barsoom novel. Colorful, inventive, thrilling. Read it for classic Burroughs adventure, complete with the living game of Jetan played to the death on the red planet.

In its time

Published in 1913, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

~5 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).