$8.00
Barsoom Map Designed by Oberon Zell
41 in stock (can be backordered)
Description
John Carter, Warlord of Mars!
Over one hundred years ago, in 1911, Edgar Rice Burroughs (the creator of Tarzan) introduced an astonished readership to the adventures of John Carter, a Civil War soldier who found himself transported to the planet Mars. Or, as the natives called it, Barsoom. The first novel was A Princess of Mars, and it was followed by ten more books over the next 30 years; plus countless comic books, and in 2012, a spectacular Disney movie, John Carter.
Enthralled readers encountered the incomparable Dejah Thoris (the titular Princess of the first title); four-armed giant Green Men; hideous blue Plant Men; Thoats, Calots, Banths, Apts, White Apes and other multi-legged beasts. Burroughs’ Barsoom was a dying world of ancient ruined cities, dry seabeds, desert-spanning canals, towering mountains, polar seas and ice caps, dense forests, and underground rivers.
These were the first sci-fi adventure tales ever written that took place on another world, with alien races, civilizations, and creatures—and they preceded and inspired every subsequent extra-planetary series from Flash Gordon to Star Wars.
But despite locating the adventures of John Carter on the canal-covered Mars depicted by Victorian astronomers, Burroughs never provided a map showing the locations of his Barsoomian cities and other features. Over the past century, many fans have tried to compile such a map, but none have truly succeeded. Until now.
Painstakingly referencing clues in all eleven books, noted historian and cartographer Oberon Zell (Lost Civilizations & Secrets of the Past, New Page 2012) has created the definitive map of Burroughs’ Barsoom as a gorgeous 11” x 17” full-color poster, accompanied by a 60-page color-illustrated booklet.
Order below for $8 (+ $2.99 shipping) for the map.
Also available is the book Barsoom – Mapping the Mythic Mars by Oberon Zell. Details here.
NOTE: The large 18″ x 24″ map is not currently available.