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

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


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       OLIVER MORTON

      Mapping Mars

      SCIENCE, IMAGINATION AND

      THE BIRTH OF A WORLD

       Copyright

      William Collins

      An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 77–85 Fulham Palace Road, London W6 8JB www.harpercollins.co.uk

      First published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2002

      Copyright © Abq72 Ltd 2002

      The right of Oliver Morton to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

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      Source ISBN: 9781841156699

      Ebook Edition © JUNE 2012 ISBN: 9780007397051

      Version: 2014-09-15

       Dedication

      For Lieutenant Arthur Noel Morton, RNVR

      Navigating officer, HMS Hargood, 1944–5 Lover of maps, lover of writing and loving father – ‘Round about here, Sir.’

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       An Antique Land

       Maps and Multiple Hypotheses

       The Artist’s Eye

       Layers

       Part Three – Water

       Malham

       Mike Carr’s Mars

       Reflections

       Shorelines

       The Ocean Below

       ‘Common Sense and Uncommon Subtlety’

       Part Four – Places

       Buffalo

       Putting Together a Place

       The Underground

       Bob Zubrin’s Frontier

       Mapping Martians

       Part Five – Change

       Symbols of the Future

       Gaia’s Neighbour

       The Undiscover’d Country

       Bibliography

       Index

       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

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