Higher than Everest

Higher than Everest

Editorial Reviews
Review
'This book provides a spectacular tour of the most exciting surface features in the Solar system and achieves its objective brilliantly ... Paul Hodge has written an adventure story in a very factual and entertaining way, and this book deserves to be a bestseller.' Jerry Workman, Popular Astronomy
'Astronomers are explorers, a fact underlined by Paul Hodge in Higher than Everest ... Instead of bombarding the reader with facts and familiar images, Hodge encourages us to imagine ourselves out there actually climbing about on the surfaces of planets and moons. He takes his intrepid traveller on imaginary scrambles up the solar system's highest volcano (Olympus Mons, on Mars), dusty traverses of the lunar crater Galileo, and chilling dives under the deepest ice floes (on Saturn's moon Europea). Each adventure is hypothetically possible with modern technology. He compares cliff climbs on Jupiter's moon Miranda with the ascent of the Eigerwand in Switzerland. He stresses the similarities between South Africa's Drakensberg mountains and Io's Mount Euboea. And throughout he emphasises the beauty and the thrill of what's still out there to be discovered.' New Scientist
'Let astronomer Paul Hodge take you on an imaginary tour of the most spectacular sites in the Solar System ... you will have your breath taken away, without even leaving your home.' Europe & Astronomy

Book Description
Tired of exploring planet Earth? Have you ever imagined what it would be like to explore the Moon? Ever wonder about the topography of Mars? In this unique guidebook all of your extraterrestrial wanderlust can be fulfilled as Paul Hodge takes you on a virtual tour of the most spectacular sites in the Solar System. Hodge includes the latest information about the Solar System into his vivid descriptions of imaginary, challenging expeditions. Imagine: