Dejah Thoris and Thelana by Books-of-Aenya, journal
Dejah Thoris and Thelana
In anticipation for the upcoming John Carter film, I decided to pick up Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars, the first of eleven books in the John Carter series. During my research, I was completely floored to learn about the character of Dejah Thoris. Burroughs describes her this way,
"She was as destitute of clothes as the green Martians who accompanied her; indeed, save for her highly wrought ornaments she was entirely naked, nor could any apparel have enhanced the beauty of her perfect and symmetrical figure."
Those familiar with my work can attest to my passion for naturism in fiction. My most popular blog to date, Nudity in Aenya