The History of Lowell Lake, from the Charter to the Great War’s End

Ipp Visits Mars: drawing by Betsy Streeter

Title: The History of Lowell Lake, from the Charter to the Great War’s End

Author: Not known 

Publisher: Not known 

Source book: Three Twins at the Crater School by Chaz Brenchley

Levity Buchanan together with her sister Charm, both new girls at the Crater School on Mars, are left in the library to wait for someone to come and show them round.

Levity is an avid reader and starts looking at the books nearby. It’s the Geography section, or rather the Areography section, with books about the land and waters of Mars. Levity finds Cassini, the Crater City but she’s already read it; The Peaks and Canyons of Tharsis but it hasn’t any pictures or maps; and Our Martian Canals and the Ships We Sail There, which is heavily illustrated but dreadfully out of date. Levity has read that too.

Then she is pleased to find The History of Lowell Lake, from the Charter to the Great War’s End. The books is only a couple of years old and there’s a folded map inside the front cover.

Sadly, for our purposes, none of these books is given an author. But you can’t have everything, and any book that includes a map or even has map endpapers is probably worth reading. Levity certainly agrees with me.

The Clangers: thanks to The Metro