Wonder

Mars

by Percival Lowell

The Boston astronomer Percival Lowell built an observatory in Arizona to watch Mars, and saw a network of fine straight lines he believed were canals, dug by a people saving their last water. This is his case, argued carefully and with his own drawings. The canals were not there, but this book fed nearly every Mars story on this shelf.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 5 hr 40 min

Where to find it

The Reading Room of Helium, on Mars

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #47015. In the public domain in the United States.