Round the Moon (Version 2)
Jules Verne
Read by Mark F. Smith
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? (6 hr 15 min)
Chapters
Recapitulatory | 12:13 | Read by Mark F. Smith |
From 20 Minutes Past Ten to 47 Minutes Past 10 P.M. | 12:51 | Read by Mark F. Smith |
The First Half-Hour | 26:03 | Read by Mark F. Smith |
Their Place of Shelter | 19:59 | Read by Mark F. Smith |
A Little Algebra | 12:56 | Read by Mark F. Smith |
The Cold of Space | 17:54 | Read by Mark F. Smith |
Question and Answer | 16:01 | Read by Mark F. Smith |
A Moment of Intoxication | 20:18 | Read by Mark F. Smith |
At Seventy-eight Thousand Five Hundred and Fourteen Leagues | 19:55 | Read by Mark F. Smith |
The Consequences of a Deviation | 14:05 | Read by Mark F. Smith |
The Observers of the Moon | 7:36 | Read by Mark F. Smith |
Fancy and Reality | 7:38 | Read by Mark F. Smith |
Orographic Details | 15:30 | Read by Mark F. Smith |
Lunar Landscapes | 17:55 | Read by Mark F. Smith |
The Night of Three Hundred Fifty-Four Hours and a Half | 20:21 | Read by Mark F. Smith |
Hyperbola or Parabola | 21:27 | Read by Mark F. Smith |
The Southern Hemisphere | 5:24 | Read by Mark F. Smith |
Tycho | 17:43 | Read by Mark F. Smith |
Grave Questions | 16:58 | Read by Mark F. Smith |
A Struggle Against the Impossible | 20:28 | Read by Mark F. Smith |
The Soundings of the "Susquehanna" | 11:57 | Read by Mark F. Smith |
J.T. Maston Recalled | 15:03 | Read by Mark F. Smith |
Recovered From the Sea | 16:31 | Read by Mark F. Smith |
The End | 8:31 | Read by Mark F. Smith |
Reviews
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richard groscost
A nice follow up from Earth to the Moon. Mark Smith was Amazing
good book
Josh Erickson
I enjoyed the book it was very well read
great
hsebasti
very well executed. easy to listen to. thank you!
alex alexander
great naration story very good but fizzled at the end
Nigel Kneale
sly attempt to teach me algebra, nice try!!
Tracy NeSmith
pretty good for when it was written
As usual Mr. Smith has rocked it
Himan