The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America (Used 1st Edition Hardcover) - David Baron Fiction having sold his jazz bar

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The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America (Used 1st Edition Hardcover) - David Baron Fiction having sold his jazz barIn the early 1900s, many Americans actually believed that we had discovered intelligent life on Mars. The Martiansa truly bizarre tale reconstructed through newly discovered clippings, letters, and photographs by bestselling science writer David Baronbegins 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 that grainy telescopic photographs of the