Mapping Mars : Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a World

Oliver Morton

ISBN 10: 031242261X / ISBN 13: 9780312422615

Verlag: St. Martins Press-3PL Sep 2003, 2003

Beschreibung

Neuware - 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 science-fiction writers, the artists and Arctic explorers who have devoted themselves to the discovery of Mars. In doing so they have given a new world to the human imagination, a setting for our next great adventure.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780312422615

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Mapping Mars : Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a World
• Verlag: St. Martins Press-3PL Sep 2003
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 031242261X
• ISBN-13: 9780312422615
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu

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Inhaltsangabe

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 science-fiction writers, the artists and Arctic explorers who have devoted themselves to the discovery of Mars. In doing so they have given a new world to the human imagination, a setting for our next great adventure.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Oliver Morton is a contributing editor at Wired, as well as a contributor for The New Yorker, Science, and The American Scholar. He lives with his wife in Greenwich, England.