Description:
This edition features new cover art and a frontispiece by Joe Jusko, a foreword and afterword by today's luminaries, and bonus materials from the archives of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.
Brief description: The creator of the immortal characters Tarzan of the Apes and John Carter of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs is one of the world's most popular authors. His timeless tales of heroes and heroines transport readers from the jungles of Africa and the dead sea bottoms of Barsoom to the miles-high forests of Amtor and the savage inner world of Pellucidar, and even to alien civilizations beyond the farthest star. Mr. Burroughs' books are estimated to have sold hundreds of millions of copies, and they have spawned 60 films and 250 television episodes.
Review Quotes:
"[Edgar Rice] Burroughs is probably the most influential writer in the entire history of the world." Ray Bradbury, author of The Martian Chronicles
"[Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom saga] aroused generations of eight-year-olds, myself among them, to consider the exploration of the planets as a real possibility, to wonder if we ourselves might one day voyage to Mars." Carl Sagan, author of Cosmos
"[I]t was not the purely fictional aspect of the [Barsoom] cycle which gave it its power, but its mythic nature, its playing upon primal urges and submerged forces within the human psyche which gave the books their appeal and which give them their continued validity." Richard A. Lupoff, author of Edgar Rice Burroughs: Master of Adventure