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Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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Soon after the American Civil War, Confederate soldier John Carter joins the gold rush in Arizona. After striking a vein of gold, Carter runs into trouble with the natives of the area. In attempts to evade their pursuit, Carter hides in a cave, unaware of its magical properties. Mysteriously, Carter is transported to Mars, which the planet inhabitants call "Barsoom". When Carter discovers that the gravity difference between Mars and Earth has granted...
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Tarzan volume 8
Publisher
Books in Motion
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
At the end of Tarzan the Untamed Lieutenant Obergatz fled in terror from Tarzan of the Apes. Tarzan's has learned that Obergatz might hold his Jane captive. She might not be Dead! Now the Tarzan must following a cold trail to find that which is most important to him. Tarzan must follow the trail across seemingly impassable marshes into Pal ul don-a savage land where primitive Waz don and Ho don fight fiercely, wielding knives with their long, prehensile...
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English
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The action is set during World War I. While John Clayton, Lord Greystoke (Tarzan) is away from his plantation home in British East Africa, it is destroyed by invading German troops from Tanganyika. On his return he discovers among many burned bodies one that appears to be the corpse of his wife, Jane Porter Clayton. Another fatality is the Waziri warrior Wasimbu, left crucified by the Germans. (Wasimbu's father Muviro, first mentioned in this story,...
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Wildside Press LLC
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) is best known for his Tarzan and John Carter of Mars books, but he also wrote four thrilling western novels. We are delighted to include them all in this volume.As always with novels from this time period, not everything is "politically correct" by modern standards. Please keep the age of the work in perspective as you read. Included are:
THE BANDIT OF HELL'S BEND
THE WAR CHIEF
APACHE DEVIL
THE DEPUTY
Author
Series
Barsoom series volume 1
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Civil War veteran John Carter is transported to a dying planet, where he must elude capture by giant green barbarians to rescue a Martian princess from certain doom. In this landmark of science fiction, the myths and mystery of the red planet supply a vibrant backdrop for a swashbuckling epic.Published in 1911, A Princess of Mars introduced a popular series of novels recounting John Carter's Martian exploits. Author Edgar Rice Burroughs, best known...
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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Cornell University professor Arthur Maxon, who has been experimenting in the creation of artificial life, travels with his daughter Virginia to one of the remote Pamarung Islands in the East Indies to pursue his project. Their departure is noted with interest by a young man, Townsend J. Harper, Jr., who is quite taken with Virginia and determines to find out where they are going. In Singapore, Maxon commissions Dr. Carl von Horn to take them the remainder...
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Publisher
Wildside Press LLC
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
This volume in the Megapack series assembles classic Martian science fiction, including the first 5 volumes of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom saga (A Princess of Mars, The Gods of Mars, Warlord of Mars, Thuvia, Maid of Mars, and The Chessmen of Mars), plus six more Martian novels and storiesby other great writers. More than 1,300 pages of classic science fiction in all!
Complete contents:
A Princess of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Gods
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Series
Barsoom series volume 3
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
For six long Martian months, John Carter has haunted the terrifying Temple of the Sun. Inside the walls of this mysterious revolving tower is his beloved wife, Dejah Thoris, the beautiful princess of Barsoom. Worse yet, his wife is trapped there with the lovely but wicked Phaidor, who has sworn to make John Carter her own-even if it means murder. How can Carter gain access to the Temple, whose doors swing open only once a year? And when he does find...
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Tarzan volume 6
Publisher
A.C. McClurg & Co
Pub. Date
1919
Language
English
Description
Jungle Tales of Tarzan is a collection of twelve loosely connected short stories by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, comprising the sixth book in order of publication in his series about the title character Tarzan. Chronologically the events recounted in it occur within Chapter 11 of the first Tarzan novel, Tarzan of the Apes, between Tarzan's avenging of his ape foster mother's death and his becoming leader of his ape tribe. The stories ran...
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Tarzan volume 4
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
1963, c1916
Language
English
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Paulvitch still lived and sought vengeance against, Tarzan. As part of his plot, he lured Tarzan's young son away from London. But the boy escaped, with the aid of the great Ape Akut. They fled....
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Tarzan volume 5
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English
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While Tarzan is seeking treasure in the city of Opar, his wife is kidnapped by men who want to hold her for ransom.
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Series
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English
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The Beasts of Tarzan is the third adventure of the jungle lord and displays the author's mythic hero at his most loyal, as he struggles through terrible trials to reunite his family, and his most savage, as he confronts the men who dared tear his family apart.
Edgar Rice Burroughs returns to the chronicles of one of the world's most celebrated fictional characters, Tarzan of the Apes. Old enemies resurface to torment Tarzan while he's in England,...
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Tarzan volume 2
Language
English
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After a brief and harrowing experience among men, Tarzan returns to the jungle, where he becomes involved in a search for Opar, the city of gold.
Author
Series
Barsoom series volume 2
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Soldier and adventurer John Carter tells the story of how he returns to the planet Mars to be reunited with his love, the Martian princess Dejah Thoris. With his great friend Tars Tarkas, mighty Jeddak of Thark, Carter sets out in search of his princess. But Dejah Thoris has vanished. And Carter becomes trapped in the legendary Eden of Mars, from which none has ever escaped alive.
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Barsoom series volume 11
Publisher
Fall River Press
Pub. Date
�2013
Language
English
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"Page-turners filled with interplanetary perils and thrilling romance, these five epic adventure tales remapped the terrain of fantasy and science fiction." ==P. [4] of cover.
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Series
Publisher
Books in Motion
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Here are a dozen action-packed interlinked jungle stories illustrating the early life of Tarzan of the Apes. The stories included are: TARZAN'S FIRST LOVE, THE CAPTURE OF TARZAN, THE FIGHT FOR BALU, THE GOD OF TARZAN, TARZAN AND THE BLACK BOY, THE WITCH DOCTOR SEEKS VENGEANCE, THE END OF BUKAWAI, THE LION, THE NIGHTMARE, THE BATTLE FOR TEEKA, A JUNGLE JOKE, TARZAN RESCUES THE MOON
20) Tarzan
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Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
A baby boy, left alone in the African jungle after the deaths of his parents, is adopted by an ape and raised to manhood without ever seeing another human being.