Lost on Venus

Any patriotic citizen can give you the name of the astronaut commonly believed to be the first American in space, and inform you of the exact time and date of liftoff from the pad at Cape Canaveral; but any student of Burroughs knows that the first American in space was a tow-headed, blue-eyed, young man named Carson Napier.

Napier, a former British subject, was an American by choice. He did not lift off from a Cape Canaveral rocket pad, but was blasted into the heavens in a rocket torpedo of his own design--more than thirty years ago!

This "Wrong-way" Corrigan of space was attempting to reach Mars but landed on Venus instead. There he encountered races primitively bestial and super-scientifically advanced. There he battled with strange beasts and giant insects. There he lost his heart to Duare, daughter of a Vepajan jong, whose beauty could mean death to the beholder.

Carson Napier's amazing adventures on Amtor are recorded in four volumes, of which this is the second, as communicated directly from him to Edgar Rice Burroughs, through the marvelous medium of telepathy.

Impossible? Science-fiction fantasy? You don't believe it? Well, if you cannot believe in the reality of the worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs after reading the first few pages of this book, then there is no Tarzan of the Apes! For it is the unique style of making the impossible plausible that made Edgar Rice Burroughs the most popular and best selling author in the world.

VERNELL CORIELL Founder, The Burroughs Bibliophiles

THE PERILS OF AMTOR

When Carson Napier, Californian, pierced the mist-laden cloud blanket that shrouded the mysterious planet Venus, he embarked on an unparalleled adventure. For this planet was peopled by several antagonistic civilizations--none of whom believed his fantastic tale of the far-distant Earth he had come from. To them he was just a spy from another Venusan city--deserving only death.

And so, Carson traveled over perilous mountains and through forests, inhabited by creatures more terrifying than any nightmare, in search of the lovely princess Duare, who had been snatched from his arms.

A tale of adventure on another world from the pen of the master--Edgar Rice Burroughs.

LOST ON VENUS

FOREWORD

When Carson Napier left my office to fly to Guadalupe Island and take off for Mars in the giant rocket that he had constructed there for that purpose, I was positive that I should never see him again in the flesh. That his highly developed telepathic powers, through the medium of which he hoped to communicate with me, might permit me to envisage him and communicate with him I had no doubts; but I expected no messages after he had detonated the first rocket. I thought that Carson Napier would die within a few seconds of the initiation of his mad scheme.

But my fears were not realized. I followed him through his mad, month-long journey through space, trembling with him as the gravitation of the Moon drew the great rocket from its course and sent it hurtling toward the Sun, holding my breath as he was gripped by the power of Venus, and thrilling to his initial adventures upon that mysterious, cloud-enwrapped planet--Amtor, as it is known to its human inhabitants.

His love for the unattainable Duare, daughter of a king, their capture by the cruel Thorians, his self-sacrificing rescue of the girl, held me enthralled.