From the jacket flap:

PIRATES of VENUS
By EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS

If you were an aviator living in Kansas City and you took off one fine morning for New York and landed in Los Angeles, that would be surprising—it would give you quite a laugh. But suppose that you had taken off for Mars and landed on Venus ! Could you laugh that off ?

That is precisely what Carson Napier did—no, we don't mean he laughed it off ; he landed on Venus. How it all happened and what happened to him is told in this new novel of high imaginative fiction by the creator of John Carter whose adventures on Mars have intrigued millions of readers during the past twenty years.
Beneath the impenetrable cloud envelope of Venus, twenty-six million miles from Kansas City, you will see giant trees raising their mighty heads five thousand to ten thousand feet above the surface of the planet to find sustenance in the moisture of the perpetual cloud banks that hide the secrets of the Shepherd Star from the eyes of Earthmen ; you will encounter strange beasts and winged men ; you will meet a race that has solved the secret of perpetual youth ; you will consort with brave men and beautiful women ; sail strange seas and explore new lands.

If you have never travelled with Edgar Rice Burroughs, there is a treat in store for you. If you have already accompanied him to the heart of Africa, to Mars, to the Moon, to the center of the earth, you have had a foretaste of the thrills that await you between the covers of this book.

Steamship companies are offering round-the-world trips, third class, for $800; but here, you have an opportunity to travel first class to Venus for the price of a good book.

O.K., Venus ! Let's go !

 

 

 

 

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