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Round the Moon (Version 2)

Gelesen von Mark F. Smith

(4,449 Sterne; 68 Bewertungen)

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

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From 20 Minutes Past Ten to 47 Minutes Past 10 P.M.

12:51

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The First Half-Hour

26:03

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Their Place of Shelter

19:59

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A Little Algebra

12:56

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The Cold of Space

17:54

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Question and Answer

16:01

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A Moment of Intoxication

20:18

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At Seventy-eight Thousand Five Hundred and Fourteen Leagues

19:55

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The Consequences of a Deviation

14:05

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The Observers of the Moon

7:36

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Fancy and Reality

7:38

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Orographic Details

15:30

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Lunar Landscapes

17:55

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The Night of Three Hundred Fifty-Four Hours and a Half

20:21

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Hyperbola or Parabola

21:27

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The Southern Hemisphere

5:24

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Tycho

17:43

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Grave Questions

16:58

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A Struggle Against the Impossible

20:28

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The Soundings of the "Susquehanna"

11:57

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J.T. Maston Recalled

15:03

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Recovered From the Sea

16:31

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The End

8:31

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Bewertungen

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THANK YOU LIBRIVOX.ORG THANK YOU JULES VERNE MARK F SMITH can make anything come alive THANKS MARK F SMITH

(5 Sterne)

A nice follow up from Earth to the Moon. Mark Smith was Amazing

good book

(4 Sterne)

I enjoyed the book it was very well read

great

(5 Sterne)

very well executed. easy to listen to. thank you!

(5 Sterne)

great naration story very good but fizzled at the end

(3,5 Sterne)

sly attempt to teach me algebra, nice try!!

(4 Sterne)

pretty good for when it was written

As usual Mr. Smith has rocked it

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