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Mapping Mars : Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a World
Mapping Mars Science Imagination and the Birth of a World
Author: Oliver Morton
How can you make sense of a world where no one has ever lived? Acclaimed science writer Oliver Morton tells the story of the heroic landscapes of Mars, now better mapped in some ways than the Earth itself. Mapping Mars introduces the reader to the nineteenth-century visionaries and spy-satellite pioneers, the petroleum geologists and scie...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780312422615
ISBN-10: 031242261X
Publication Date: 9/1/2003
Pages: 384
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Publisher: Picador
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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I loved this book, especially all the suggestions I got from it for novels having to do with Mars. Robinson's "Red Mars" has long been one of my favorites, so I was delighted to learn more about the geology and geography of places on Mars featured in the novel. There are some beautiful--though not large--maps of Mars, too, both modern and old, and many interesting facts from the history of Martian studies.


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