From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne, Fiction, Fantasy & Magic

From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne, Fiction, Fantasy & Magic

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Verne's 1865 tale of a trip to the moon is (as you'd expect from Verne) great fun, even if bits of it now seem, in retrospect, a little strange. Our rocket ship gets shot out of a cannon? To the moon? Goodness! But in other ways it's full of eerie bits of business that turned out to be very near reality: he had the cost, when you adjust for inflation, almost exactly right. There are other similarities, too. Verne's cannon was named the Columbiad; the Apollo 11 command module was named Columbia. Apollo 11 had a three-person crew, just as Verne's did; and both blasted off from the American state of Florida. Even the return to earth happened in more-or-less the same place. Coincidence -- or fact!? We say you'll have to read this story yourself to judge.

Book information

ISBN: 9781598184549
Publisher: Alan Rodgers Books LLC
Imprint: Aegypan
Pub date:
DEWEY: FIC
Language: English
Number of pages: 136
Weight: 226g
Height: 229mm
Width: 153mm
Spine width: 9mm