Round the Moon (Version 2)

Jules Verne (1828 - 1905)
Translated by Louis Mercier (1820 - 1875)

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?

Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction, Travel Fiction, Science Fiction

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 Recapitulatory Mark F. Smith
00:12:13
Play 01 From 20 Minutes Past Ten to 47 Minutes Past 10 P.M. Mark F. Smith
00:12:51
Play 02 The First Half-Hour Mark F. Smith
00:26:03
Play 03 Their Place of Shelter Mark F. Smith
00:19:59
Play 04 A Little Algebra Mark F. Smith
00:12:56
Play 05 The Cold of Space Mark F. Smith
00:17:54
Play 06 Question and Answer Mark F. Smith
00:16:01
Play 07 A Moment of Intoxication Mark F. Smith
00:20:18
Play 08 At Seventy-eight Thousand Five Hundred and Fourteen Leagues Mark F. Smith
00:19:55
Play 09 The Consequences of a Deviation Mark F. Smith
00:14:05
Play 10 The Observers of the Moon Mark F. Smith
00:07:36
Play 11 Fancy and Reality Mark F. Smith
00:07:38
Play 12 Orographic Details Mark F. Smith
00:15:30
Play 13 Lunar Landscapes Mark F. Smith
00:17:55
Play 14 The Night of Three Hundred Fifty-Four Hours and a Half Mark F. Smith
00:20:21
Play 15 Hyperbola or Parabola Mark F. Smith
00:21:27
Play 16 The Southern Hemisphere Mark F. Smith
00:05:24
Play 17 Tycho Mark F. Smith
00:17:43
Play 18 Grave Questions Mark F. Smith
00:16:58
Play 19 A Struggle Against the Impossible Mark F. Smith
00:20:28
Play 20 The Soundings of the "Susquehanna" Mark F. Smith
00:11:57
Play 21 J.T. Maston Recalled Mark F. Smith
00:15:03
Play 22 Recovered From the Sea Mark F. Smith
00:16:31
Play 23 The End Mark F. Smith
00:08:31