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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

Year of Publication: 1874Genres: Travel Fiction , Science Fiction , Action & Adventure Fiction

Running Time: 05 hours 05 minutes 49 seconds

#	Chapter Name
1	01 - The Gun Club Mark F. Smith	13:45
2	02 - President Barbicane's Communication Mark F. Smith	16:19
3	03 - Effect of the President's Communication Mark F. Smith	7:32
4	04 - Reply From the Observatory of Cambridge Mark F. Smith	12:08
5	05 - The Romance of the Moon Mark F. Smith	10:47
6	06- The Permissive Limits of Ignorance and Belief in the United States Mark F. Smith	10:44
7	07 - Hymn of the Cannon-Ball Mark F. Smith	14:06
8	08 - History of the Cannon Mark F. Smith	9:21
9	09 - The Question of the Powders Mark F. Smith	11:51
10	10 - One Enemy vs. Twenty-Five Millions of Friends Mark F. Smith	10:38
11	11 - Florida and Texas Mark F. Smith	10:46
12	12 - Urbi et Orbi Mark F. Smith	12:17
13	13 - Stones Hill Mark F. Smith	10:26
14	14 - Pickaxe and Trowel Mark F. Smith	10:30
15	15 - The Fete of the Casting Mark F. Smith	10:29
16	16 - The Columbiad Mark F. Smith	9:22
17	17 - A Telegraphic Despatch Mark F. Smith	2:14
18	18 - The Passenger of the 'Atlanta' Mark F. Smith	12:19
19	19 - Monster Meeting Mark F. Smith	16:34
20	20 - Attack and Riposte Mark F. Smith	18:55
21	21 - How a Frenchman Manages an Affair Mark F. Smith	17:38
22	22 - The New Citizen of the United States Mark F. Smith	10:14
23	23 - The Projectile-Vehicle Mark F. Smith	7:31
24	24 - The Telescope of the Rocky Mountains Mark F. Smith	7:25
25	25 - Final Details Mark F. Smith	11:18
26	26 - Fire! Mark F. Smith	10:13
27	27 - Foul Weather Mark F. Smith	5:34
28	28 - A New Star Mark F. Smith	4:53