All Around the Moon

By Verne, Jules

Book Id: WPLBN0000580161
Format Type: PDF eBook
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Reproduction Date: 2007

Title:	All Around the Moon
Author:	Verne, Jules
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Children's literature, Children's fiction
Collections:	Children's Literature Collection
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Publisher:	World Public Library Association


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Excerpt
Excerpt: A few years ago the world was suddenly astounded by hearing of an experiment of a most novel and daring nature, altogether unprecedented in the annals of science. The BALTIMORE GUN CLUB, a society of artillerymen started in America during the great Civil War, had conceived the idea of nothing less than establishing direct communication with the Moon by means of a projectile! President Barbican, the originator of the enterprise, was strongly encouraged in its feasibility by the astronomers of Cambridge Observatory, and took upon himself to provide all the means necessary to secure its success. Having realized by means of a public subscription the sum of nearly five and a half millions of dollars, he immediately set himself to work at the necessary gigantic labors.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents -- Table of Contents: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- PRELIMINARY CHAPTER -- CHAPTER I. FROM 10 P.M. TO 10. 46' 40'' -- CHAPTER II. THE FIRST HALF HOUR -- CHAPTER III. THEY MAKE THEMSELVES AT HOME AND FEEL QUITE COMFORTABLE -- CHAPTER IV. FOR THE CORNELL GIRLS -- CHAPTER V. THE COLDS OF SPACE -- CHAPTER VI. INSTRUCTIVE CONVERSATION -- CHAPTER VII. A HIGH OLD TIME -- CHAPTER VIII. THE NEUTRAL POINT -- CHAPTER IX. A LITTLE OFF THE TRACK -- CHAPTER X. THE OBSERVERS OF THE MOON