The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze That Captured Turn-Of-The-Century America

by David Baron

The Times headline was no joke. In the early 1900s, many Americans actually believed that we had discovered intelligent life on Mars. The Martians--a truly bizarre tale reconstructed through newly discovered clippings, letters, and photographs by bestselling science writer David Baron--begins in the 1890s with Percival Lowell, a wealthy Harvard scion who was so certain of his Mars discovery that he (almost) convinced a generation of astronomers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324090669
• ISBN13: 9781324090663
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 336 Pages