![]() ![]() John Carter kissing the princess is about as racy as it gets. Despite this, there's no sex in these books. Everybody is naked except for a leather harness for holding swords, keys and other possessions. An unusual feature of Martian life is that the inhabitants never developed the habit of wearing clothes. The stories are adventures in which the hero will always get the girl and there's lots of hand-to-hand combat. They are also sometimes called the 'John Carter books', but in fact John Carter is only the main character in six of the 11 books. The inhabitants' name for Mars is 'Barsoom', so these are often called the Barsoom books to distinguish them from other stories about Mars. He fights his way up to being Warlord of Mars and wins a princess along the way. A veteran soldier of the American Civil War, John Carter, is mysteriously transported to Mars. They feature planet Mars occupied by warring nations who have a mixture of high and low technology - they fly around in giant warships kept in the air by antigravity, and have guns so accurate they can hit a target 100 miles 1 away, but tend to prefer hand-to-hand combat with swords. ![]() Probably the best and most popular of these are the Mars/Barsoom books. He is most famous for his invention of the character Tarzan, the child who was abandoned in the jungle and was brought up by apes, going on to be the muscle-bound ruler of the jungle.īurroughs wrote many other series of books, and while none of them is as famous as Tarzan, they were well received in their time. Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) was an American writer of adventure stories in the early 20th Century. ![]()
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