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The novel tells of earthman John Carter who is mysteriously transported to the planet Barsoom (through a form of teleportation), and encounters both formidable alien creatures resembling the beasts of ancient myth and various humanoids.
Carter was 6′2″ tall with close-cropped black hair and steel-gray eyes. His character and courtesy exemplified the ideals of the ante-bellum South (the southern U.S. states just before the American Civil War). A Virginian who served as a captain in the Civil War, he struck it rich by finding gold in Arizona after the war.
While hiding from Apaches in a cave, he found himself mysteriously transported to Mars, where he subsequently had many adventures. The less severe gravity of Mars compared to Earth gave him demigod-like strengthSee: Strength is a rap compilation presented by Asiatic Warriors Strength of materials in physics, engineering and materials science Physical strength of organisms' means (especially the muscles of most metazoa) of locomotion and movement The word strengt.
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Actually, John Carter is an immortal being. In the opening pages of A Princess of Mars, Burroughs reveals to the reader that Carter can remember no childhood, having always been a man of about thirty years old. Many generations of families referred to him as "Uncle John," but he always lived to see all the members of the families grow old and die, while he remained young. After travelling to Mars, he seemed to find his true calling in life as a warrior-savior of the planet's inhabitants.
His "death" was actually his inanimate body left behind on Earth while he travelled about Mars in an identical body. Carter reveals that he has mastered the process of travelling to and from Earth and Mars and can travel between the two at will. Thus, his Earth body lays in state in a special tomb that can only be opened from the inside.
The humanoid "Red Martians", "White Martians" and "Black Martians" resemble Homo sapiens in almost every respect except that they are oviparous. The warlike "Green Martians" are four-armed, tusked, and approximately four meters tall.
Many Barsoomians are generally warlike and honor-bound. The technology of the tales runs the gamut from dueling sabers to ray guns and aircraft, with the discovery of powerful ancient devices or research into the development of new ones often a plot device. The natives also eschew clothing other than jewelry, providing a stimulating subject for illustrators of the stories.
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