page_title: Barsoom
section_title: "Mammals"
hierarchical_section_title: Barsoom / Fauna / "Mammals"
caption_attribution_description: English: Art for Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, McClurg, 1920. Français&#160;: Illustration réalisée par James Allen St. John pour l'édition originale de 1920 de Thuvia, Maid of Mars (fr:Thuvia, vierge de Mars) de Edgar Rice Burroughs
context_page_description: Barsoom is a fictional representation of the planet Mars created by American pulp fiction author Edgar Rice Burroughs. The first Barsoom tale was serialized as Under the Moons of Mars in 1912, and published as a novel as A Princess of Mars in 1917. Ten sequels followed over the next three decades, further extending his vision of Barsoom and adding other characters. The first five novels are in the public domain in U.S., and the entire series is free around the world on Project Gutenberg Australia, but the books are still under copyright in most of the rest of the world.
  The Barsoom series, where John Carter in the late 19th century is mysteriously transported from Earth to a Mars suffering from dwindling resources, has been cited by many well known science fiction writers as having inspired them. Elements of the books have been adapted by many writers, in novels, short stories, comics, television and film.
context_section_description: The martian mammalian equivalents all have fur, and both domestic and wild varieties are described by Burroughs.
caption: Green Martian riding a thoat, as illustrated by J. Allen St. John in first edition of Thuvia, Maid of Mars
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