From the earth to the moon ; and, Round the moon /

Verne, Jules, 1828-1905.,

From the earth to the moon ; and, Round the moon / [print] Jules Verne. - [Lexington, Kentucky] : Seven Treasures Publications, (c)2010. - 164 pages ; 21 cm

Translation of De la terre a la lune and Autour de la lune.

Book 1: From the Earth to the Moon: I. The gun club -- II. President Barbicane's communication -- III. Effect of the President's communication -- IV. Reply from the Observatory of Cambridge -- V. The romance of the moon -- Virgin Islands The permissive limits of ignorance and belief in the United States -- Virgin IslandsI. The hymn of the cannon-ball -- Virgin IslandsII. History of the cannon -- IX. The question of the powers -- X. One enemy volume twenty-five millions of friends -- XI. Florida and Texas -- XII. Urbi et Orbi -- XIII. Stones hill -- XIV. Pickaxe and trowel -- XV. The fete of the casting -- XVI. The columbiad -- XVII. A telegraphic dispatch -- XVIII. The passenger of the Alanta -- XIX. A monster meeting -- XX. Attack and riposte -- XXI. How a Frenchman manages an affair -- XXII. The new citizen of the United States -- XXIII. The projectile-vehicle -- XXIV. The telescope of the Rocky Mountains -- XXV. Final details -- XXVI. Fire! -- XXVII. Foul weather -- XXVIII. A new star. Book 2: Round the Moon: Preliminary chapter - Recapitulating the first part of the work and serving as a preface to the second -- I. From twenty minutes past ten to forty-seven minutes past ten P.M. -- II. The first half hour -- III. Their place of shelter -- IV. A little algebra -- V. The cold of space -- Virgin Islands Question and answer -- Virgin IslandsI. A moment of intoxication -- Virgin IslandsII. At seventy-five thousand five hundred and fourteen leagues -- IX. The consequences of a deviation -- X. The observers of the moon -- XI. Fancy and reality -- XII. Orographic details -- XIII. Lunar landscapes -- XIV. The night of three hundred and fifty-four hours and a half -- XV. Hyperbola or parabola -- XVI. The southern hemisphere -- XVII. Tyco -- XVIII. Grave questions -- XIX. A struggle against the impossible -- XX. The soundings of the Susquehanna -- XXI. J. T. Maston recalled -- XXII. Recovered from the sea -- XXIII. The end.

"From the Earth to the Moon" is a humorous science fantasy novel by Jules Verne and is one of the earliest entries in that genre. It tells the story of a Frenchman and two well-to-do members of a post-American Civil War gun club who build an enormous sky-facing columbiad and launch themselves in a projectile/spaceship from it to a Moon landing. "Round the Moon", the sequel to "From the Earth to the Moon", continues the trip to the moon which left the reader in suspense after the previous novel. http://www.amazon.com/Earth-Moon-Round/dp/1440411395/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1424440255&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=9781440411397



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Voyages around the world--Fiction.
Interplanetary voyages--Fiction.

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