{"product_id":"mars-beckons-john-noble-wilford-9780679735311","title":"Mars Beckons: The Mysteries, the Challenges, the Expectations of Our Next Great Adventure in","description":"The astronomer Percival Lowell envisioned a world threaded by canals and peopled by ancient, intelligent beings. The Viking spacecraft showed us a seemingly sterile planet with a salmon-pink sky and sub-Antarctic temperatures. In this swiftly paced and authoritative book, a Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer traverses the vast physical and cognitive distances between Earth and Mars--and between Lowell's Mars and Viking's--while offering an informed vision of the future of Martian exploration. \u003ci\u003eMars Beckons\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating synthesis of myth, history, politics, and high technology, written with the momentum of a grand adventure story. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Absorbing, fast, paced and neatly balanced . . . It is a testimony to Wilford that he can cover so much ground. . . . He proves that science writing can be done excellently.\"--\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Highly readable . . . well-crafted . . . an important book in the ongoing debate about space.\"--\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"An excellent book . . . Wilford offers us a compelling vision of our past, present and future with Mars.\"--\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Noble Wilford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0679735313\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679735311\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/03\/1991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.02h x 5.23w x 0.53d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/08\/1991","brand":"John Noble Wilford","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48517383323903,"sku":"9780679735311","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_55231e33-0107-4dff-843d-13c38d8a4263.jpg?v=1778731628","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mars-beckons-john-noble-wilford-9780679735311","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}