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“From the Earth to the Moon” is a novel written by Jules Verne in 1865. The novel is the story of an inventor named Barbicane, and some other obsessive American Civil War veterans, members of the Baltimore Gun Club, who conceive the idea of creating an enormous cannon in order to shoot a “space-bullet” to the Moon from a site in Florida.
Many difficulties arrest the creation of the canon, as it’s gargantuan size requires an astronomical amount of money and time to build. Eventually, however, the canon is completed. Shortly before it’s completion, a French adventurer named Ardan arrives to say that he wishes to travel inside of the bullet to the moon. A hollow capsule is made in which the Frenchman can travel and Barbicane and his long time rival, Captain Nicholl decide to go with him on the journey in order to settle their rivalry.
Unfortunately, the Barbicane’s astronomic calculations are slightly off and the capsule ends up orbiting the moon instead of landing on it. In the end, the three would-be astronauts are left orbiting the moon with no sign if they will ever manage to land.
"From the Earth to the Moon" is one of Verne’s most well known works and is notable specifically for it’s early calculations for the requirements to the canon and their surprising realism, despite limited research on the moon at the time.
This novel is the first part of Jules Verne's Classic science fiction duology describing man's space voyage that was followed by masterpiece "All Around the Moon".
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Rating★★★★ 3.8 (46.2K)
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GenreScience Fiction, Mystery and Thriller, General Fiction
Length4 hrs 45 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 9, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1. The Gun Club
2Chapter 2. President Barbicane’s Communication
3Chapter 3. Effect Of The President’s Communication
4Chapter 4. Reply From The Observatory Of Cambridge
5Chapter 5. The Romance Of The Moon
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6Chapter 6. Permissive Limits Of Ignorance And Belief In The United States
7Chapter 7. The Hymn Of The Cannon-Ball
8Chapter 8. History Of The Cannon
9Chapter 9. The Question Of The Powders
10Chapter 10. One Enemy V. Twenty-Five Millions Of Friends
11Chapter 11. Florida And Texas
12Chapter 12. Urbi Et Orbi
13Chapter 13. Stones Hill
14Chapter 14. Pickaxe And Trowel
15Chapter 15. The Fete Of The Casting
16Chapter 16. The Columbiad
17Chapter 17. A Telegraphic Dispatch
18Chapter 18. The Passenger Of The Atlanta
19Chapter 19. A Monster Meeting
20Chapter 20. Attack And Riposte
21Chapter 21. How A Frenchman Manages An Affair
22Chapter 22. The New Citizen Of The United States
23Chapter 23. The Projectile-Vehicle
24Chapter 24. The Telescope Of The Rocky Mountains
25Chapter 25. Final Details
26Chapter 26. Fire!
27Chapter 27. Foul Weather
28Chapter 28. A New Star
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