The novel “Lieut. Gullivar Jones, His Vacation” (cover photo ©Simon Jones), also known as “Gulliver of Mars”, by Edwin L. Arnold was published for the first time in 1905.

US Navy Lieutenant Gulliver Jones found himself on Mars unexpectedly, thanks to a magic carpet. There he discovers ancient civilizations and strange places where people are in part very different from the Earth’s but otherwise similar. Slowly, he’s at least partly able to settle in one of Mars exotic city.

Among the people Gulliver Jones meets there’s the beautiful princess Heru. When a group of people with bad intentions kidnap the girl to give her to the sovereign of another kingdom, the Earthsman decides he’s going to save her at all costs. Jones begins a long and dangerous journey to find her.