PREFACE
CONTENTS
LIST OF PLATES AND MAPS
TO MARS via THE MOON
Transcriber’s Note
The punctuation and spelling from the original text have been faithfully preserved. Only obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
Plate XVI is missing from the scanned image files. The reference within the Maps and Plates list has been preserved.
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TO MARS via THE MOON
Drawn by M. Wicks
Drawn by M. Wicks
View from the Air-ship, over the Canals and the City of Sirapion
"What a splendid view we then had over the country all around us!... Across the country, in line after line, were the canals which we had been so anxious to see, extending as far as the eye could reach!"
To Mars via The Moon
AN ASTRONOMICAL STORY
By
MARK WICKS
"It is astronomy which will eventually be the chief educator and
emancipator of the human race."—Sir Edwin Arnold.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
LONDON
SEELEY AND CO. LIMITED
38 Great Russell Street
1911
Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.
At the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh
TO
PROFESSOR PERCIVAL LOWELL
A.B., LL.D.
Director of the Observatory at Flagstaff, Arizona
TO WHOSE CAREFUL AND PAINSTAKING RESEARCHES,
EXTENDING OVER MANY YEARS, THE WORLD OWES
SO MUCH OF ITS KNOWLEDGE OF
THE PLANET MARS,
THIS LITTLE BOOK IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED BY
ONE WHO HAS DERIVED INFINITE PLEASURE FROM
THE PERUSAL OF HIS WORKS ON
THE SUBJECT
