From the Earth to the Moon, Version 2
Gelesen von Mark F. Smith
Jules Verne
(4,482 Sterne; 82 Bewertungen)
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 (5 hr 5 min)
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Julia R.
(4 Sterne)
Published in 1865, I enjoyed this often humorous account of a group of war veterans, private individuals in a gun club, figuring out how to send 3 people and 2 dogs to the moon. At that time Verne even selected Texas and Florida as being likely spots for their blastoff canon! Now I must read the sequel, “Round the Moon” to see how the passengers fared. Excellent reading by Mark Smith.
Wonderful books, wonderful voice
Dache Barbier des Zouaves
(5 Sterne)
To tell you the truth: I have taken to just looking up all the books read by Mark F. Smith from Simpsonville Carolina. His reading of “The Mysterious Island” got me hooked. What a voice... And I have loved Jules Verne since I was a child. We used to read him aloud in the weekends in front of the fire, at our small holiday house.
Narrator is awesome.
Himan
(5 Sterne)
The stroy is fantastic. Mark Smith's naŕration is what brings me to this app again and again.
Nice
Eric Fitzgerald
(4 Sterne)
it was very interesting to compare the science of the 1800s to what we know about the moon today
it's good
Josh Erickson
(5 Sterne)
not the most adventurous book but still worth hey listen
ManyRoads
(5 Sterne)
a wonderful adventure, most excellently read ... onward to the sequel
richard groscost
(5 Sterne)
Great nineteenth century sci fi read. Mark Smith was Excellent