Edgar Rice Burroughs ~5 hr read

After ten years back on Earth, John Carter is flung again to Barsoom, landing not in friendly lands but in the Valley Dor, the Martian heaven from which no traveler was ever meant to return alive.

Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1913 novel is the rousing second book of the Barsoom saga. Vivid, thrilling, gloriously imaginative. Read it for classic ERB Mars, the plant men, the black pirates, the false goddess Issus, and a headlong adventure that exposes the great lie at the heart of Martian religion.

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).

Illustrated by

Frank E. Schoonover