Excerpts from the Book 'Escape On Venus':

... can be reconciled by multiplying each by the square root of minus one! So, having a compass, I flew a little north of west with reasonable assurance ...
... Vomer, as though awaiting orders. He hesitated. I let the muzzle of my pistol swing in his direction. Get to work, slaves, he said, we have wasted ...
... slipping the anchor. We had words, then and I told him that when we returned to Japal I should report to the jong himself that he had hidden all during ...
... and his mate were among them. There was a great deal of noise and a great deal of excitement. The warriors who came had metal tridents, but these the guypals ...
... you to death, and this man shall be your executioner. Send that other slave back to his quarters and place Yron against the pillar in his place, ...
... savages or a tharban, that most frightful of lion-like carnivores or a basto, a huge, omnivorous beast that bears some slight resemblance to ...
... news for you, but I can't talk this way. Get in a small boat and row off a little way. I'll come down and land on the water and talk with you. You ...
... myself, insisted Doran. We remained in that dungeon for a couple of weeks. A slave brought us food once a day we saw no one else and then, at last, our ...
... fellow in the next cage shook his head sadly. You don't look like a Brokol, he said, but you talk like one. It is too bad. When I saw you coming ...
... you but now that I have been deposed I am free to speak. Somehow, I could not believe that you did, I told her, but I am glad to hear it from your ...
... frozen smiles when they were not laughing. I overheard a great deal of the conversation which elicited laughter, but could find nothing to laugh at. Duare, ...
... I am positive it lies almost due south of us. Once there, I am sure that Taman will send an expedition to rescue Ero Shan and me. That is the ...
... going to live in the palace with Vik-vik-vik. Other jongs have a vadjong why shouldn't I? You should! cried some sycophant. Vik-vik-vik and Ata-voo-med-ro ...
... and not be able to let go???the Vooyorgan was certainly in a fix possibly as bad a fix as any amoeba had been in since the dawn of life on Amtor. Duare ...
... upon her next, but nothing happened. She closed in on the anotar she seized a pontoon and climbed to the wing she was safe! Vik-yor had found her ...
... surprised that they permitted me to remain but I later learned that it was on Danlot's orders that I was given free run of the ship, on the theory ...
... the confusion we made our way out of the palace and through the gates with a number of Pangan officers. As we reached the plaza we saw Pangan troops ...
... work might put it in running condition again for there were tools and spare parts aboard. We started to work immediately, but when darkness fell we ...
... Duare. I have escaped before, I reminded her. I know, she said, but somehow this seems so terribly hopeless. Even if we escape from Hangor, we ...
... Venus. Burroughs likely intended Beyond the Farthest Star to be the opening of a new series comparable to the Barsoom or Pellucidar sequences, but declining ...