Percival's Planet

by Michael Byers

Book Overview

A novel of ambition and obsession centered on the race to discover Pluto in 1930, pitting an untrained Kansas farm boy against the greatest minds of Harvard at the run-down Lowell Observatory in Arizona In 1928, the boy who will discover Pluto, Clyde Tombaugh, is on the family farm, grinding a lens for his own telescope under the immense Kansas sky. In Flagstaff, Arizona, the staff of Lowell Observatory is about to resume the late Percival Lowell's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312573561
• ISBN13: 9780312573560
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"