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The Martians : The True Story of an Alien Craze That Captured Turn-Of-The-Century America
by David Baron
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Overview
This large print edition features an easy-to-read larger type size while preserving the complete text of the original edition.
In the early 1900s, many Americans actually believed we had discovered intelligent life on Mars, as David Baron chronicles in The Martians, his tale of a nation swept up in Mars mania. At the center of Baron's historical drama is Percival Lowell, who devised a grand theory that the red planet was home to a utopian society. The Mars frenzy spurred a nascent literary genre called science fiction, and The Martians is a scintillating and necessary reminder that while we look to Mars for answers, what we often find are mirrors of ourselves.
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- ISBN-13: 9781420531435
- ISBN-10: 1420531433
- Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print
- Publish Date: February 2026
- Dimensions: 8.53 x 5.94 x 1.09 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.49 pounds
- Page Count: 498
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