Round the Moon (Version 2)

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Action & Adventure Fiction, Science Fiction, Travel Fiction

Authors: Jules Verne In Year : 1874

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Round the Moon (Version 2)

Recapitulatory
From 20 Minutes Past Ten to 47 Minutes Past 10 P.M.
The First Half-Hour
Their Place of Shelter
A Little Algebra
The Cold of Space
Question and Answer
A Moment of Intoxication
At Seventy-eight Thousand Five Hundred and Fourteen Leagues
The Consequences of a Deviation
The Observers of the Moon
Fancy and Reality
Orographic Details
Lunar Landscapes
The Night of Three Hundred Fifty-Four Hours and a Half
Hyperbola or Parabola
The Southern Hemisphere
Tycho
Grave Questions
A Struggle Against the Impossible
The Soundings of the "Susquehanna"
J.T. Maston Recalled
Recovered From the Sea
The End

Jules Verne’s sequel to his “From the Earth to the Moon” begins with a short chapter to catch you up, if you missed the first book. Then we join our three adventurers in their huge projectile as they gather themselves after the shock of being fired at the Moon from the Columbiad cannon. Perhaps in a nod to Yankee exceptionalism, Verne permits them an extraordinary encounter in space, and better yet – to survive it! But that encounter has a lasting effect: despite all the careful preparations to deposit the projectile on the Moon, it appears the travelers are destined to miss it! (The book is not called “On the Moon”, is it?!) Careful scientists at heart, the former artillerymen in the projectile note every occurrence faithfully in their notebooks, along with the details of their observations of the Moon as they fly past… and round it. That precision might pay off as they try to figure out what happens to them next: will they fly off into space, become an eternal satellite of the Moon, or perhaps, something else? And do they have any way at all to affect that?