ASIN: B00L8IPM5G
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 260
Barsoom is a fictional representation of the planet Mars created by American pulp fiction author Edgar Rice Burroughs. The first Barsoom tale was serialized as Under the Moons of Mars in 1912, and published as a novel as A Princess of Mars in 1917. Ten sequels followed over the next three decades, further extending his vision of Barsoom and adding other characters. The first five novels are in the public domain in U.S., but are still under copyright laws in most of the rest of the world.The world of Barsoom is a romantic vision of a dying Mars. Writers and science popularizers like Camille Flammarion, who was convinced that Mars was at a later stage of evolution than Earth and therefore much more dry,[1] took the ideas further and published books like Les Terres du Ciel (1884), which contained illustrations of a planet covered with canals.[2] Burroughs gives credits to him in his ...
