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

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.

Author: Oliver Morton
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 09/01/2003
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 8.57h x 5.47w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780312422615

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.

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