The Chessmen of Mars - Softcover

Burroughs, Edgar Rice

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ISBN 10: 1475157991 ISBN 13: 9781475157994

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

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The fifth novel in Edgar Rice Burrough's classic Barsoom series, The Chessmen of Mars follows the adventures of John Carter and Dejah Thoris's strong-willed daughter Tara. When Tara spuns the advances of Prince Gahan, she flounces straight into danger. Her flyer is downed in a storm and she is captured by the crab-like Kaldanes. Smitten Gathan must find his lost love. But rescuing a recalcitrant princess on Barsoom is rarely simple. Tara, Gathan and her new friend Ghek try to escape the Kaldane prison not knwoing they will all become living chessmen in a game where the price of losing could be their lives.

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This book is a large print version using a minimum of 16 point type in a 6 by 9 inch size and library bound. As with all Quiet Vision print books, it use a high grade, acid free paper for long life.

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Edgar Rice Burroughs created one of the most iconic figures in American pop culture, Tarzan of the Apes, and it is impossible to overstate his influence on entire genres of popular literature in the decades after his enormously winning pulp novels stormed the public's imagination.

The Chessmen of Mars, first published in 1922, is the fifth book in Burroughs' Mars series, about the adventures of Earthman John Carter on the Red Planet. Here, Carter's daughter, Tara of Helium (aka Kansas), is caught up in a deadly game played by the bizarre creatures of the alien world... while also finding herself under the sway of the nameless warrior sent to rescue her.

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