From the Earth to the Moon, Version 2

Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction, Travel Fiction, Science Fiction

Number of Chapters: 28

Length: 05 hours and 05 minutes

Language: English

Jules Verne takes aim at some amusing stereotypes of Americans in this story of a pre-rocketry attempt to shoot a cannonball to the Moon. Those Yankees don’t do anything by halves!

His means is a Columbiad cannon so enormous that it must be bored 900 feet into the ground, so immense that 1200 smelting furnaces would be needed to create the iron for its casting, so stupendous that 100 tons of guncotton would be needed to loft its cannonball heavenwards.

The journey must be watched from the tallest peak of the Rocky Mountains through a new telescope with a reflector measuring 16 feet in diameter and a tube reaching skyward 280 feet.

And then - a simple telegram upsets all the preparations. An unknown Frenchman has taken ship and is on the way. And he has firmly decided that he will ride inside the projectile! - Summary by Mark F. Smith

01 - The Gun Club (Mark F. Smith)

02 - President Barbicane's Communication (Mark F. Smith)

03 - Effect of the President's Communication (Mark F. Smith)

04 - Reply From the Observatory of Cambridge (Mark F. Smith)

05 - The Romance of the Moon (Mark F. Smith)

06- The Permissive Limits of Ignorance and Belief in the United States (Mark F. Smith)

07 - Hymn of the Cannon-Ball (Mark F. Smith)

08 - History of the Cannon (Mark F. Smith)

09 - The Question of the Powders (Mark F. Smith)

10 - One Enemy vs. Twenty-Five Millions of Friends (Mark F. Smith)

11 - Florida and Texas (Mark F. Smith)

12 - Urbi et Orbi (Mark F. Smith)

13 - Stones Hill (Mark F. Smith)

14 - Pickaxe and Trowel (Mark F. Smith)

15 - The Fete of the Casting (Mark F. Smith)

16 - The Columbiad (Mark F. Smith)

17 - A Telegraphic Despatch (Mark F. Smith)

18 - The Passenger of the 'Atlanta' (Mark F. Smith)

19 - Monster Meeting (Mark F. Smith)

20 - Attack and Riposte (Mark F. Smith)

21 - How a Frenchman Manages an Affair (Mark F. Smith)

22 - The New Citizen of the United States (Mark F. Smith)

23 - The Projectile-Vehicle (Mark F. Smith)

24 - The Telescope of the Rocky Mountains (Mark F. Smith)

25 - Final Details (Mark F. Smith)

26 - Fire! (Mark F. Smith)

27 - Foul Weather (Mark F. Smith)

28 - A New Star (Mark F. Smith)

The audiobook From the Earth to the Moon, Version 2 falls under the genres of Action & Adventure Fiction, Travel Fiction, Science Fiction. It is written by Jules Verne, Louis Mercier.

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