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The Sirens of Mars audiobook
- By: Sarah Stewart Johnson
- Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
- Category: Astronomy, Science
- Length: 7 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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The Sirens of Mars Audiobook Summary
“Sarah Stewart Johnson interweaves her own coming-of-age story as a planetary scientist with a vivid history of the exploration of Mars in this celebration of human curiosity, passion, and perseverance.”—Alan Lightman, author of Einstein’s Dreams
WINNER OF THE PHI BETA KAPPA AWARD FOR SCIENCE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Times (UK) • Library Journal
“Lovely . . . Johnson’s prose swirls with lyrical wonder, as varied and multihued as the apricot deserts, butterscotch skies and blue sunsets of Mars.”—Anthony Doerr, The New York Times Book Review
Mars was once similar to Earth, but today there are no rivers, no lakes, no oceans. Coated in red dust, the terrain is bewilderingly empty. And yet multiple spacecraft are circling Mars, sweeping over Terra Sabaea, Syrtis Major, the dunes of Elysium, and Mare Sirenum—on the brink, perhaps, of a staggering find, one that would inspire humankind as much as any discovery in the history of modern science.
In this beautifully observed, deeply personal book, Georgetown scientist Sarah Stewart Johnson tells the story of how she and other researchers have scoured Mars for signs of life, transforming the planet from a distant point of light into a world of its own.
Johnson’s fascination with Mars began as a child in Kentucky, turning over rocks with her father and looking at planets in the night sky. She now conducts fieldwork in some of Earth’s most hostile environments, such as the Dry Valleys of Antarctica and the salt flats of Western Australia, developing methods for detecting life on other worlds. Here, with poetic precision, she interlaces her own personal journey—as a female scientist and a mother—with tales of other seekers, from Percival Lowell, who was convinced that a utopian society existed on Mars, to Audouin Dollfus, who tried to carry out astronomical observations from a stratospheric balloon. In the process, she shows how the story of Mars is also a story about Earth: This other world has been our mirror, our foil, a telltale reflection of our own anxieties and yearnings.
Empathetic and evocative, The Sirens of Mars offers an unlikely natural history of a place where no human has ever set foot, while providing a vivid portrait of our quest to defy our isolation in the cosmos.
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The Sirens of Mars Full Details
| Narrator | Cassandra Campbell |
| Length | 7 hours 56 minutes |
| Author | Sarah Stewart Johnson |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 28, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780593210284 |
Subjects
The publisher of the The Sirens of Mars is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: stem gifts, astronomy books, books about mars, space science, STEM, space gifts, solar system, universe, history, feminist gifts, feminist, carl sagan, nature, natural history, kentucky, antarctica, history of science, discovery, research, cosmos, exploration, life, nasa, life on mars, planetary, red planet, planets, planet, women in science, scientist, science gifts, astronomy gifts, astronomy books for adults, astronomy, mars, space, science, memoirs, memoir, autobiographies, autobiography, biographies, biography, science books, Science, Astronomy, Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs, Science, History The BISAC Subject Code is Astronomy, Science
Additional info
The publisher of the The Sirens of Mars is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780593210284.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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