Life on Mars and Other Stories September 14, 2010
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
Beachcombing has always had a bit of a thing about Percival Lowell (1855-1916) word-smith, Orientalist (author of Noto, 1891) and Ivy League rebel. And of all Lowell’s accomplishments none stand as high in Beachcombing’s estimation as Lowell’s theories on Mars set out in three books – all happily now available in pdf form: Mars (1895), Mars […]
Victorian Venus Spokes June 9, 2010
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
Beachcombing has had a gratifying amount of correspondence over his recent article on Martian Vegetation. He thought then that he would call into cause another planet, Venus and the great Percival Lowell (1855-1916) who wrote on both planets in works including Mars and Its Canals […]
