Ever since the John Carter movie came out last summer, I’ve had an urge to read Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Barsoon series. I hadn’t read it previously, so I thought this would be a decent time to start. I picked up A Princess of Mars and, while you could tell that parts of it were definitely dated, it was still a fun action-adventure read. It’s hard to believe that the book (collecting the first of the Barsoon short stories) was the first things that Burroughs had ever published. It is, for the most part, well told and there are only a few rough spots. So, let’s find out more about our princess.