The “Robsinson Crusoe” of The Red Planet

From the back cover:
One Man Alone On An Alien World
He crash-landed on Mars fifteen years ahead of any other Earth expedition. He was without communications, without supplies, and with nothing but the wreck of an experimental rocket for resources. What is more it was the planet Mars as astronomers know it really to be – not just a fictional fantasy background for glamorous adventure. It was barren, cold, more grimly inhospitable than the top of Mount Everest. And if it had inhabitants, they were conspicuous by their absence,
The story of how one determined man set out to survive on a world whose very air he couldn’t safely breathe is an astounding science-fiction saga of the most grippingly realistic type… a novel to be remembered.

Rex Gordon, 1957

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