From the Earth to the Moon, Version 2

Author: Jules Verne

Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction, Travel Fiction, Science Fiction

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Description From the Earth to the Moon, Version 2

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

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01 - The Gun Club02 - President Barbicane's Communication03 - Effect of the President's Communication04 - Reply From the Observatory of Cambridge05 - The Romance of the Moon06- The Permissive Limits of Ignorance and Belief in the United States07 - Hymn of the Cannon-Ball08 - History of the Cannon09 - The Question of the Powders10 - One Enemy vs. Twenty-Five Millions of Friends11 - Florida and Texas12 - Urbi et Orbi13 - Stones Hill14 - Pickaxe and Trowel15 - The Fete of the Casting16 - The Columbiad17 - A Telegraphic Despatch18 - The Passenger of the 'Atlanta'19 - Monster Meeting20 - Attack and Riposte21 - How a Frenchman Manages an Affair22 - The New Citizen of the United States23 - The Projectile-Vehicle24 - The Telescope of the Rocky Mountains25 - Final Details26 - Fire!27 - Foul Weather28 - A New Star

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