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Mars and Its Canals
Percival Lowell
320 pages~6 hr 22 min read49 chapters$4.99
Percival Lowell was certain the straight lines on Mars were canals dug by a dying civilization to save its water. This is his full case: the polar caps, their melting, and the network he believed girdled the planet. Wrong, perhaps, but gloriously argued and hugely influential. Cross the red planet with its most famous believer.
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49 chapters
- 1MARS AND ITS CANALS
- 2PREFACE
- 3CONTENTS
- 4LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5PART I NATURAL FEATURES
- 6CHAPTER I ON EXPLORATION
- 7CHAPTER II A DEPARTURE-POINT
- 8CHAPTER III A BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF PAST MARTIAN DISCOVERY
- 9CHAPTER IV THE POLAR CAPS
- 10CHAPTER V BEHAVIOR OF THE POLAR CAPS
- 11CHAPTER VI MARTIAN POLAR EXPEDITIONS
- 12CHAPTER VII WHITE SPOTS
- 13CHAPTER VIII CLIMATE AND WEATHER
- 14CHAPTER IX MOUNTAINS AND CLOUD
- 15CHAPTER X THE BLUE-GREEN AREAS
- 16CHAPTER XI VEGETATION
- 17CHAPTER XII TERRAQUEOUSNESS AND TERRESTRIALITY
- 18CHAPTER XIII THE REDDISH-OCHRE TRACTS
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