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Author:

Sheehan, William, 1954-

Title:

Mars : the lure of the red planet / William Sheehan & Stephen James O'Meara.

Publisher:

Prometheus Books,

Copyright Date:

2001

Description:

406 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Mars (Planet)
Mars (Planeet)

Other Authors:

O'Meara, Stephen James, 1956-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

17. If stones could talk. 1. Lilac dawn -- 2. Mars in the solar system -- 3. Wanderers and wonderers -- 4. The untrackable star -- 5. The war with Mars -- pt. 2. A swelling orb -- 6. The sails of imagination -- 7. Mappers of strange seas -- 8. "A less difficult and bloody conquest" -- Sidebar : a color-blind astronomer -- "Mars," excerpt of a poem by Percival Lowell -- 9. Lowell's Mars -- 10. La Grande Lunette -- Sidebar : the canals of Mars -- pt. 3. The Mars of romance -- 11. Invaders from Mars -- 12. War of the worlds -- pt. 4. Marsfall -- 13. Water, water anywhere? -- 14. Woodstock Mars -- 15. The brave new world of Mariner 9 -- pt. 5. The abode of life? -- 16. Paradise lost? -- 17. If stones could talk.

ISBN:

9781573929004 (acid-free paper)
157392900X (acid-free paper)

LCCN:

00067358

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

N4AX745 -- Iowa Lakes Community College Library - Emmetsburg (Emmetsburg)

N2AX314 -- Divine Word College - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)

PHAX277 -- Graceland University - Frederick Madison Smith Library (Lamoni)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)