Voyage to Mars: NASA's Search for Life Beyond Earth

Laurence Bergreen

ISBN 10: 157322166X / ISBN 13: 9781573221665

Published by Riverhead Hardcover, 2000

About this Item

355pp. Remainder mark to lower exterior page edge.

Seller Inventory # 051128

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Voyage to Mars: NASA's Search for Life Beyond Earth
• Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 157322166X
• ISBN 13: 9781573221665
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science
  • Cosmology

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Synopsis

The author probes the special appeal of the Red Planet among scientists, exploring the Mars obsession and its implications for science, philosophy, and the future of humankind. 40,000 first printing.

About the Author

Laurence Bergreen is the author of several award-winning biographies, including those of Louis Armstrong, Al Capone, Irving Berlin, and James Agee. He has written for many national publications including Esquire and Newsweek, taught at the New School for Social Research, and served as Assistant to the President of the Museum of Television and Radio in New York. Bergreen has also served as a nonfiction judge for the National Book Awards and as a judge for the PEN/Albrand Nonfiction Award. Voyage to Mars is soon to be an NBC-TV television movie that will premier in spring 2002, and a weekly series that will debut in fall 2002. Bergreen lives in New York City.