{"product_id":"2940014087506","title":"A PRINCESS OF MARS","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      I  On the Arizona Hills\u003cbr\u003e     II  The Escape of the Dead\u003cbr\u003e    III  My Advent on Mars\u003cbr\u003e     IV  A Prisoner\u003cbr\u003e      V  I Elude My Watch Dog\u003cbr\u003e     VI  A Fight That Won Friends\u003cbr\u003e    VII  Child-Raising on Mars\u003cbr\u003e   VIII  A Fair Captive from the Sky\u003cbr\u003e     IX  I Learn the Language\u003cbr\u003e      X  Champion and Chief\u003cbr\u003e     XI  With Dejah Thoris\u003cbr\u003e    XII  A Prisoner with Power\u003cbr\u003e   XIII  Love-Making on Mars\u003cbr\u003e    XIV  A Duel to the Death\u003cbr\u003e     XV  Sola Tells Me Her Story\u003cbr\u003e    XVI  We Plan Escape\u003cbr\u003e   XVII  A Costly Recapture\u003cbr\u003e  XVIII  Chained in Warhoon\u003cbr\u003e    XIX  Battling in the Arena\u003cbr\u003e     XX  In the Atmosphere Factory\u003cbr\u003e    XXI  An Air Scout for Zodanga\u003cbr\u003e   XXII  I Find Dejah\u003cbr\u003e  XXIII  Lost in the Sky\u003cbr\u003e   XXIV  Tars Tarkas Finds a Friend\u003cbr\u003e    XXV  The Looting of Zodanga\u003cbr\u003e   XXVI  Through Carnage to Joy\u003cbr\u003e  XXVII  From Joy to Death\u003cbr\u003e XXVIII  At the Arizona Cave\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eILLUSTRATIONS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith my back against a golden throne,\u003cbr\u003e  I fought once again for Dejah Thoris . . . . . . _Frontispiece_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI sought out Dejah Thoris in the throng of departing chariots.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe drew upon the marble floor the first map of the\u003cbr\u003e  Barsoomian territory I had ever seen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe old man sat and talked with me for hours.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eON THE ARIZONA HILLS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI am a very old man; how old I do not know.  Possibly I am a hundred,\u003cbr\u003epossibly more; but I cannot tell because I have never aged as other\u003cbr\u003emen, nor do I remember any childhood.  So far as I can recollect I have\u003cbr\u003ealways been a man, a man of about thirty.  I appear today as I did\u003cbr\u003eforty years and more ago, and yet I feel that I cannot go on living\u003cbr\u003eforever; that some day I shall die the real death from which there is\u003cbr\u003eno resurrection.  I do not know why I should fear death, I who have\u003cbr\u003edied twice and am still alive; but yet I have the same horror of it as\u003cbr\u003eyou who have never died, and it is because of this terror of death, I\u003cbr\u003ebelieve, that I am so convinced of my mortality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd because of this conviction I have determined to write down the\u003cbr\u003estory of the interesting periods of my life and of my death.  I cannot\u003cbr\u003eexplain the phenomena; I can only set down here in the words of an\u003cbr\u003eordinary soldier of fortune a chronicle of the strange events that\u003cbr\u003ebefell me during the ten years that my dead body lay undiscovered in an\u003cbr\u003eArizona cave.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI have never told this story, nor shall mortal man see this manuscript\u003cbr\u003euntil after I have passed over for eternity.  I know that the average\u003cbr\u003ehuman mind will not believe what it cannot grasp, and so I do not\u003cbr\u003epurpose being pilloried by the public, the pulpit, and the press, and\u003cbr\u003eheld up as a colossal liar when I am but telling the simple truths\u003cbr\u003ewhich some day science will substantiate.  Possibly the suggestions\u003cbr\u003ewhich I gained upon Mars, and the knowledge which I can set down in\u003cbr\u003ethis chronicle, will aid in an earlier understanding of the mysteries\u003cbr\u003eof our sister planet; mysteries to you, but no longer mysteries to me.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy name is John Carter; I am better known as Captain Jack Carter of\u003cbr\u003eVirginia.  At the close of the Civil War I found myself possessed of\u003cbr\u003eseveral hundred thousand dollars (Confederate) and a captain's\u003cbr\u003ecommission in the cavalry arm of an army which no longer existed; the\u003cbr\u003eservant of a state which had vanished with the hopes of the South.\u003cbr\u003eMasterless, penniless, and with my only means of livelihood, fighting,\u003cbr\u003egone, I determined to work my way to the southwest and attempt to\u003cbr\u003eretrieve my fallen fortunes in a search for gold.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI spent nearly a year prospecting in company with another Confederate\u003cbr\u003eofficer, Captain James K. Powell of Richmond.  We were extremely\u003cbr\u003efortunate, for late in the winter of 1865, after many hardships and\u003cbr\u003eprivations, we located the most remarkable gold-bearing quartz vein\u003cbr\u003ethat our wildest dreams had ever pictured.  Powell, who was a mining\u003cbr\u003eengineer by education, stated that we had uncovered over a million\u003cbr\u003edollars worth of ore in a trifle over three months.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079820132592,"sku":"2940014087506","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014087506_p0.jpg?v=1763600364","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014087506","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}