Mark Wicks
To Mars via the Moon
Paperback
(Black Cat Press June 24, 2009)
, First edition
In this novel, originally published in 1911, author Mark Wicks describes a journey to the Moon and Mars in the spaceship "Areonal". Heavily influenced by the work of Percival Lowell, the book accurately mirrors the popular interest in Mars at the turn of the last century. Included are the original illustrations, many of them drawn by the author.