First serialized in the pulp magazine 'All-Story Magazine' between February and July of 1912, 'A Princess of Mars' is the first novel in Edgar Rice Burroughs's classic 'Barsoom' series, set on the planet Mars. At the center of the series is the protagonist John Carter, a Confederate Captain of the American Civil War, who finds himself mysteriously transported to the planet Mars. Upon arrival John Carter discovers that the lower gravity of the planet has endowed him a super human strength and agi