THE RED JOURNEY BACK

A FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF THE SECOND AND THIRD

MARTIAN EXPEDITIONS, BY THE SPACE-SHIPS

Albatross AND Comet,

COMPILED FROM NOTES AND RECORDS BY

VARIOUS MEMBERS OF THE EXPLORING PARTIES,

THE WHOLE REVISED BY STEPHEN MACFARLANE

AND NOW FULLY ASSEMBLED AND EDITED BY

JOHN KEIR CROSS

THE ILLUSTRATIONS ARE BY

Robin Jacques

COWARD-MCCANN INC

NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT, 1954, BY JOHN KEIR CROSS

Eight lines on page 145 are reprinted fromHassan by James Elroy

Flecker by permission of the publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Copy-

right, 1922, by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Renewal copyright, 1950, by

Mrs. Helle Flecker.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 54-6320

MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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