When Captain Jack Carter died and left his effects to his nephew, the young man could never have guessed what was hidden in the journals of the humble Virginia gentleman. The documents reveal that the vagabond Civil War veteran roamed not only to prospect gold in the hill country of Arizona, but to save the noble princess of the greatest race on a dying planet.Though he lives among savages and fights like a savage, John Carter brings humanity to alien world, a world without trust or friendship or peace. He finds love on the surface of a distant planet, only to have it slip away in his last effort to save his new-found life.