Africa in particular has many secrets unknown to the great world. The planet is excessively complex, with many secrets, races, and nations. The Earth has one natural satellite, typically it is referred to as "the moon" but its actual name is Luna. The distance between Jasoom and Barsoom is 48 million miles, and thus only two Earthmen are known to have travelled to Barsoom, and no Martians have ever made it out to Jasoom, though Martian science had, by 1917, developed the means to view and hear things on Earth, and the study of Chinese, English, French, Spanish, Russian, and various other languages became a hobby of wealthy intellectuals in kingdoms like Toonol, particularly when news began to spread of the exploits of Carter and Paxton. It is native home of John Carter and Ulysses Paxton, who were relative unknowns on Earth but became distinguished heroes on Mars. Both maps, the one above and the one following, appear to be pencil drafts laid out with protractor and ruler. The quality of the map reproduced in 'An Atlas of Fantasy' is very poor, though most markings are legible. FIRST A scale of miles was shown and later crossed out. On the whole then, small problems in part having to do with the cheapness of the mass-market paperback production aside, a valuable book for all Barsoomian fanatics and Burroughsians.Jasoom (known to humans as Earth) is the third planet, located between Barsoom (Mars) and Cosoom (Venus). Upper right hand corner: 'MAP of BARSOOM ' and 'XVI' At the bottom of the map: Circumfrence 13,289 mi LATN or S LONGE or W ALWAYS GIVE LAT. The other sections are all reasonably complete, I think few if any characters or concepts of any importance in the series aren't touched on. It's rather amusing (the "real" Burroughs of the books is last heard from in 1969 at the age of 114!) and puts one to mind of Philip Jose Farmer's "Wold Newton" concept, stitching together all kinds of fictional characters with vast lifespans into one consistent literary universe. Section XI is a bio of the "Edgar Rice Burroughs" to whom most of the stories in the books are told, with asides about his activities involving Tarzan, David Innes, Carson Napier, etc. I would have liked to see a chronology of the events in the books included in section I. Similarly the illustrations scattered throughout by Neal MacDonald are really lovely, but just don't come off well in this format. In any case, the chapters are: I - A Brief History of pre-Carter Barsoom II - A Geography of Barsoom III - A Biography of Barsoom IV - The Flora and Fauna of Barsoom V - Measurements on Barsoom VI - The Languages, Religions and Customs of Barsoom VII - A General Barsoomian Glossary VIII - Quotations, Proverbs and Expletives IX - Barsoomian Science and Invention X - Through Space to Barsoom? XI - "Edgar Rice Burroughs": A Brief Biographical Space There are maps in sections II, though they are just simple hemispherical ones with little detail, and aren't well reproduced and are too small to be terribly useful. This is Helium as drawn from the descriptions by Dejah Thoris to John Carter in A Princess of Mars-Here is the Koal Forest. This is a sectional map of the Artolian Hills -This is the Helium Valley. I think the chapter format works fairly well, given the small paperback edition that I believe is the only way this book was published, though I tend to usually prefer a strict alphabetical "encyclopedic" format in such exercises. BARSOOM-These are the original maps of Barsoom drawn by Edgar Rice Burroughs taken from notes and descriptions by John Carter. The book is organized into several chapters, each of them offering a guide to various aspects of the Barsoomian world created by Edgar Rice Burroughs in 11 books published from 1912-64, and all previously published in magazine form. The book looks to be out-of-print now, but I don't know that it's been superseded by anything better and you can easily get it used cheaply here or elsewhere.
My paperback copy of this book dates from 1980 and has a Michael Whelan cover that I think might be taken from one of the Burroughs books.
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