Serve yourself, your children with the tools that seed intuitive thinking skills, books that challenge and enrich the imagination. Take them back to the time before the mind-controlling television and electronic games to the origins of the ideas that gave birth to these electronic miracles. - BOOKS that fuel the creative processes of the human imagination. Edgar Rice Burroughs was one such man and author that enriched the minds of many a person.
FOREWARD
India is a world unto itself, apart in manners, customs,
occultism from the world and life with which
we are familiar. Even upon far Barsoom or Amtor
might be found no more baffling mysteries than those
which lie hidden in the secret places of the brains and
lives of her people. We sometimes feel that what we
do not understand must be bad; that is our heritage
from the ignorance and superstition of the painted
savages from which we are descended.
Of the many
good things that have come to us out of India I am
concerned at present with but one; the power which
old Chand Kabi transmitted to the son of an English
officer and his American wife to transmit his thoughts
and visualizations to the mind of another at distances
even as great as those which separate the planets. It
is to this power we owe the fact that Carson Napier
has been able to record, through me, the story of his
adventures upon the planet Venus.
When he took off from Guadalupe Island in his giant
rocket ship for Mars, I listened to the story of that
epochal flight that ended, through an error in calculation,
upon Venus. I followed his adventures there
that started in the island kingdom of Vepaja where
he fell desperately in love with Duare, the unattainable
daughter of the king. I followed their wanderings
across seas and land masses into the hostile city
of Kapdor, and Kormor, the city of the dead, to glorious
Havatoo, where Duare was condemned to death
through a strange miscarriage of justice.
I thrilled with
excitement during their perilous escape in the
aeroplane that Carson Napier had built at the request
of the rulers of Havatoo. And always I suffered with
Napier because of Duare's unalterable determination
to look upon his love as an insult to the virgin daughter
of the king of Vepaja. She repulsed him constantly
because she was a princess, but in the end I rejoiced
with him when she realized the truth and acknowledged
that though she could not forget that she was a
princess she had discovered that she was a woman
first. That was immediately after they had escaped
from Havatoo and were winging their way above the
River of Death toward an unknown sea in seemingly
hopeless search for Vepaja, where Duare's father,
Mintep, ruled.
Months passed. I commenced to fear that Napier
had crashed in his new ship, and then I began to have
messages from him again which I shall record for the
benefit of posterity as nearly in his own words as I
can recall them.
About the Author
Edgar Rice Burroughs is one of the world's most
popular authors. With no previous experience as an
author, he wrote and sold his first novel--'A Princess
of Mars' in 1912. In the ensuing thirty-eight years until
his death in 1950, Burroughs wrote ninety-one books
and a host of short stories and articles. Although best
known as the creator of the classic Tarzan of the Apes
and John Carter of Mars, his restless imagination knew
few bounds. Burroughs's prolific pen ranged from the
American West to primitive Africa and on to romantic
adventure on the moon, the planets, and even beyond
the farthest star.
No one knows how many copies of ERB books have
been published throughout the world. It is conservative
to say, however, that with the translations into
thirty-two known languages, including Braille, the
number must ran into the hundreds of millions. When
one considers the additional worldwide following of
the Tarzan newspaper feature, radio programs, comic
magazines, motion pictures, and television,
Burroughs must have been known and loved by literally
a thousand million or more.
Edgar Rice Burroughs commenced writing a "contemporary"
tale about adventure in the south seas in
1913. The first part was called THE CAVE GIRL and
originally appeared in THE ALL-STORY magazine for
July, August, and September 1913. Its sequel, THE
CAVE MAN appeared in serial fashion in 1917; both
parts were later collected in hard cover in 1925 by A.
C. McClurg & Co.
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