THE ANGRY PLANET

AN AUTHENTIC FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT

OF A JOURNEY TO MARS IN THE SPACE-SHIP

 

Albatross,

 

COMPILED FROM NOTES AND RECORDS BY

VARIOUS MEMBERS OF THE EXPEDITION,

AND NOW ASSEMBLED AND EDITED FOR

PUBLICATION BY

JOHN KEIR CROSS

 

FROM MANUSCRIPTS MADE AVAILABLE BY

Stephen MacFarlane

 

THE ILLUSTRATIONS ARE BY

Robin Jacques

 

 

COWARD-MCCANN INC

NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT, 1945, BY

PETER LUNN (PUBLISHERS) LIMITED, LONDON

COPYRIGHT, 1946, BY COWARD-MCCANN, INC.

 

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TO AUDREY

 

 

 

THE STORY

 

THE ANGRY PLANET

Full Page Illustrations

CHAPTER I. AN INTRODUCTION by Stephen MacFarlane

CHAPTER II. A HOLIDAY IN SCOTLAND, by Paul Adam

CHAPTER III. ON ROCKETS AND SPACE-SHIPS by Andrew McGillivray

CHAPTER IV. A JOURNEY THROUGH SPACE, by Various Hands

CHAPTER V. A MARTIAN LANDSCAPE by Jacqueline Adam

CHAPTER VI. THE MEN OF MARS by Stephen Macfarlane

CHAPTER VII. FIRST SIGNS OF AN ENEMY, by Paul Adam

CHAPTER VIII. THE FIGHT FOR THE “ALBATROSS,” by Stephen Macfarlane

CHAPTER IX. ALARUMS AND EXCURSIONS

Part 1. A THEORY OF MARTIAN LIFE by Stephen MacFarlane

Part 2. A THEORY OF MARTIAN LIFE by Andrew McGillivray, F.R.S., Ph.D.

CHAPTER X. CAPTURED! by Michael Malone

CHAPTER XI. ATTACK, by Stephen Macfarlane

CHAPTER XII. THE RETURN TO EARTH, by Various Hands

AN EPILOGUE, by John Keir Cross

THE END