Round the Moon (Version 2)


Lu par Mark F. Smith

(4.4 stars; 81 reviews)

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)

Chapitres

Recapitulatory 12:13 Lu par Mark F. Smith
From 20 Minutes Past Ten to 47 Minutes Past 10 P.M. 12:51 Lu par Mark F. Smith
The First Half-Hour 26:03 Lu par Mark F. Smith
Their Place of Shelter 19:59 Lu par Mark F. Smith
A Little Algebra 12:56 Lu par Mark F. Smith
The Cold of Space 17:54 Lu par Mark F. Smith
Question and Answer 16:01 Lu par Mark F. Smith
A Moment of Intoxication 20:18 Lu par Mark F. Smith
At Seventy-eight Thousand Five Hundred and Fourteen Leagues 19:55 Lu par Mark F. Smith
The Consequences of a Deviation 14:05 Lu par Mark F. Smith
The Observers of the Moon 7:36 Lu par Mark F. Smith
Fancy and Reality 7:38 Lu par Mark F. Smith
Orographic Details 15:30 Lu par Mark F. Smith
Lunar Landscapes 17:55 Lu par Mark F. Smith
The Night of Three Hundred Fifty-Four Hours and a Half 20:21 Lu par Mark F. Smith
Hyperbola or Parabola 21:27 Lu par Mark F. Smith
The Southern Hemisphere 5:24 Lu par Mark F. Smith
Tycho 17:43 Lu par Mark F. Smith
Grave Questions 16:58 Lu par Mark F. Smith
A Struggle Against the Impossible 20:28 Lu par Mark F. Smith
The Soundings of the "Susquehanna" 11:57 Lu par Mark F. Smith
J.T. Maston Recalled 15:03 Lu par Mark F. Smith
Recovered From the Sea 16:31 Lu par Mark F. Smith
The End 8:31 Lu par Mark F. Smith

Critiques

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(5 stars)

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


(5 stars)

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

Good listen


(4 stars)

With the exception of a few really boring chapters in the beg-middle I thought it was a good listen. Thanks for another good read Mark smith

love Verne


(5 stars)

Love it. I like the reader. It's so good.

good book


(4 stars)

I enjoyed the book it was very well read


(0.5 stars)

lots of download problems, getting multiple copies of chapters contiguously

great


(5 stars)

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


(5 stars)

great naration story very good but fizzled at the end