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

Morton, Oliver

ISBN 10: 031242261X / ISBN 13: 9780312422615

Published by Picador, NY, 2003

About this Item

First Picador Paperback Edition: September 2003, in addition complete number line including number one. Soft cover in fine condition. Text block clean and tight. Contains some colored and black and white photos. No markings noted. * From the book, "Mapping Mars" is a brilliant, sustained achievement which presents not just our changing representation of Mars, but the developing map of humanity's consciousness through science, technology, culture, and art. Oliver Morton is a superb writer who has made a specialist subject enthralling and universal.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a World
• Publisher: Picador, NY
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 031242261X
• ISBN 13: 9780312422615
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.