The Big Book of Mars: From Ancient Egypt to The Martian, A Deep-Space Dive into Our Obsession with the Red Planet

With this book, distant Mars will become closer, and space will interest even those who have never looked at the stars. Who would have thought that the obsession with the Red Planet began with a translation error. When in 1877 Schiaparelli saw a network of lines on the surface of Mars, technological progress and a great desire to be not the only intelligent beings in the universe played a cruel jo...