The Gods of Mars

In this book, continuing the stirring adventures narrated in A Princess of Mars, sturdy John Carter of Virginia finds himself once more upon the strange planet forty-three million miles from earth. How he recovers his wife and son; how he fights the great white apes and the "plant men", ferocious creatures with sucking mouths in the palms of their hands, and whose mighty tails swish their victims to instant death; and how he defies even Issus herself, terrible Goddess of Death, whom all Mars worships and reveres, are among the gripping episodes described in this second daring narrative of adventures on the dying planet of Barsoom.