Five top books for visiting Mars

One title on the Barnes & Noble Review's list of five top books on visiting Mars:

Geographies of Mars
by K. Maria D. Lane

Mars has long fascinated us, and inspired a sense of awe in late nineteenth century public upon the release of Mars, a landmark 1895 work of controversial astronomy from author Percival Lowell. As Adam Kirsch wrote in his BNR review of Geographies, a fascinating look at Lowell and his contemporaries' impressions of Mars, "these fantasies, Lane argues, have much to tell us about the way turn-of-the-century Americans and Europeans thought about space, knowledge, and power."

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--Marshal Zeringue