Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space
By Jules Verne
Length11h 43m
About this audiobook
The story starts with a comet called Gallia, that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. The disaster occurred on January 1 of the year 188x in the area around Gibraltar. On the territory that was carried away by the comet there remained a total of thirty-six people of French, eng, Spanish and Russian nationality. These people did not realize at first what had happened, and considered the collision an earthquake. They first noticed weight loss: the adjutant of Captain Servadac Ben Zoof to his amazement jumped twelve meters high. Zoof with Servadac also soon noticed that the alternation of day and night is shortened to six hours, that east and west changed sides, and that water begins to boil at 66 degrees Celsius, from which they rightly deduced that atmosphere became thinner and pressure dropped. At the beginning of their stay in Gallia they noticed the Earth with the Moon, but thought it was an unknown planet. Other important information was obtained through their research expedition with a ship, which the comet also took. During the voyage they discovered a mountain chain blocking the sea, which they initially considered to be the Mediterranean Sea and then they found the island of Formentera (before the catastrophe a part of the Balearic Islands). where they found a French astronomer Palmyrin Rosette, who helped them to solve all the mysterious phenomena. They were all on the comet which was discovered by Rosette a year ago and predicted a collision course with Earth, but no one believed the astronomer, because a layer of thick fog at the time prevented astronomical observations in other places… (Excerpt from Wikipedia)
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length11 hrs 43 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 27, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME NINE
24CHAPTER XXII. A FROZEN OCEAN
2BOOK I.
25CHAPTER XXIII. A CARRIER-PIGEON
3CHAPTER I. A CHALLENGE
26CHAPTER XXIV. A SLEDGE-RIDE
4CHAPTER II. CAPTAIN SERVADAC AND HIS ORDERLY
27BOOK II.
5CHAPTER III. INTERRUPTED EFFUSIONS
28CHAPTER I. THE ASTRONOMER
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6CHAPTER IV. A CONVULSION OF NATURE
29CHAPTER II. A REVELATION
7CHAPTER V. A MYSTERIOUS SEA
30CHAPTER III. THE PROFESSOR'S EXPERIENCES
8CHAPTER VI. THE CAPTAIN MAKES AN EXPLORATION
31CHAPTER IV. A REVISED CALENDAR
9CHAPTER VII. BEN ZOOF WATCHES IN VAIN
32CHAPTER V. WANTED: A STEELYARD
10CHAPTER VIII. VENUS IN PERILOUS PROXIMITY
33CHAPTER VI. MONEY AT A PREMIUM
11CHAPTER IX. INQUIRIES UNSATISFIED
34CHAPTER VII. GALLIA WEIGHED
12CHAPTER X. A SEARCH FOR ALGERIA
35CHAPTER VIII. JUPITER SOMEWHAT CLOSE
13CHAPTER XI. AN ISLAND TOMB
36CHAPTER IX MARKET PRICES IN GALLIA
14CHAPTER XII. AT THE MERCY OF THE WINDS
37CHAPTER X. FAR INTO SPACE
15CHAPTER XIII. A ROYAL SALUTE
38CHAPTER XI. A FETE DAY
16CHAPTER XIV. SENSITIVE NATIONALITY
39CHAPTER XII. THE BOWELS OF THE COMET
17CHAPTER XV. AN ENIGMA FROM THE SEA
40CHAPTER XIII. DREARY MONTHS
18CHAPTER XVI. THE RESIDUUM OF A CONTINENT
41CHAPTER XIV. THE PROFESSOR PERPLEXED
19CHAPTER XVII. A SECOND ENIGMA
42CHAPTER XV. A JOURNEY AND A DISAPPOINTMENT
20CHAPTER XVIII. AN UNEXPECTED POPULATION
43CHAPTER XVI. A BOLD PROPOSITION
21CHAPTER XIX. GALLIA'S GOVERNOR GENERAL
44CHAPTER XVII. THE VENTURE MADE
22CHAPTER XX. A LIGHT ON THE HORIZON
45CHAPTER XVIII. SUSPENSE
23CHAPTER XXI. WINTER QUARTERS
46CHAPTER XIX. BACK AGAIN
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