Pirates of Venus - Venus, Bk 1 Author:Edgar Rice Burroughs Carson Napier set out for Mars in a secret interplanetary rocket but found himself instead on a different world -- the cloud-hidden planet Venus. — Venus was a startling world -- semi-private, semi-civilized. It was a place of unmapped oceans dotted with great islands; a world whose trees pierced the clouds and whose cities squatted on their bran... more »ches; a planet whose inhabitants included men, half-men, and monsters, all struggling with each other for dominance.
Carson Napier's adventures, his search for the beautiful Duare, are a Burroughs novel in the best Tarzan tradition.« less
Here's book #1 of the wildly entertaining Venus series. This is one of my favorite works by ERB. Today's "adventure" authors could learn something from the old school.