From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon

From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon by Jules Verne Audiobook
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Product Info

Sounded ID: 9798823482806

ISBN: 9798823482806

Publication Date: October 14, 2023

Publisher: Author's Republic

Language: English

Author Name: Jules Verne

Narrator Name: Tad Davis

Studio Narrated Audiobook 15 hrs 34 mins | Fiction

From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon

Author
Jules Verne
Publisher
Author's Republic
Narrator
Tad Davis

Studio Narrated Audiobook

This audiobook is a traditionally narrated work produced in a studio with a live voice actor and contains no content generated using Voice Replica technologies or synthetic narration.

From the Earth to the Moon and its sequel, Around the Moon, present Jules Verne’s 19th century vision of space travel. Because rockets at the time were seriously limited in range and payload, he launches his three travellers from a gigantic cannon instead. In a voyage with striking parallels to the Apollo space program, they leave in a conical projectile from South Florida, experience weightlessness, orbit the Moon, conduct experiments, and end up splashing down in the Pacific Ocean.
There are certainly fanciful aspects to the novel, but Verne worked out the math and science in meticulou...

From the Earth to the Moon and its sequel, Around the Moon, present Jules Verne’s 19th century vision of space travel. Because rockets at the time were seriously limited in range and payload, he launches his three travellers from a gigantic cannon instead. In a voyage with striking parallels to the Apollo space program, they leave in a conical projectile from South Florida, experience weightlessness, orbit the Moon, conduct experiments, and end up splashing down in the Pacific Ocean.
There are certainly fanciful aspects to the novel, but Verne worked out the math and science in meticulous detail, and his work inspired many people involved in the American and European space programs in the 20th century. And he managed to do all this while combining the story with an often hilarious satire on the American obsession with guns, firepower, and commercialization.
This audio version is the first one in English to make use of a new, complete, and accurate translation. Many of the mistakes Verne has been accused of making over the years were in fact made by his translators, and every effort has been made here to scrupulously follow his original text. Verne’s passion, his astonishing research, and his surprising humor are all on display.
The translation is by Verne expert and space illustrator Ron Miller; the narration is by Tad Davis, who has previously narrated the Verne novels Journey to the Center of the Earth and The Mysterious Island. The audiobook includes two essays by Ron Miller. One analyzes the science Verne used in the novel; the other describes Miller’s series of books The Conquest of Space — new editions, both reprints and new translations, of many long out-of-print books and stories on the subject of space exploration. This translation originally appeared as part of that series.

Chapters

# Title Duration
1. e2m 0000 Opening Credits

0 mins 16 secs

2. Note

0 mins 35 secs

3. Part 1, Chapter 1 - The Gun Club

18 mins 59 secs

4. Chapter 2 - Communication of President Barbicane

17 mins 30 secs

5. Chapter 3 - Effect of Barbicane's Communication

9 mins 39 secs

6. Chapter 4 - Response from Cambridge Observatory

11 mins 37 secs

7. Chapter 5 - Romance of the Moon

15 mins 28 secs

8. Chapter 6 - What It's Impossible Not to Know

12 mins 45 secs

9. Chapter 7 - Hymn of the Cannonball

20 mins 43 secs

10. Chapter 8 - History of the Cannon

12 mins 39 secs

11. Chapter 9 - Question of the Powder

15 mins 46 secs

12. Chapter 10 - An Enemy among 25 Million Friends

14 mins 30 secs

13. Chapter 11 - Florida and Texas

15 mins 14 secs

14. Chapter 12 - Urbi et Orbi

14 mins 01 secs

15. Chapter 13 - Stones Hill

14 mins 44 secs

16. Chapter 14 - Pick and Shovel

16 mins 04 secs

17. Chapter 15 - Festival of the Casting

10 mins 50 secs

18. Chapter 16 - The Columbiad

15 mins 19 secs

19. Chapter 17 - A Telegram

2 mins 14 secs

20. Chapter 18 - The Passenger of the Atlanta

23 mins 00 secs

21. Chapter 19 - A Meeting

24 mins 04 secs

22. Chapter 20 - Attack and Counterattack

20 mins 46 secs

23. Chapter 21 - How a Frenchman Manages an Affair

19 mins 25 secs

24. Chapter 22 - A New Citizen of the United States

14 mins 45 secs

25. Chapter 23 - The Coach Projectile

16 mins 59 secs

26. Chapter 24 - The Telescope

13 mins 54 secs

27. Chapter 25 - Final Details

15 mins 06 secs

28. Chapter 26 - Fire

12 mins 28 secs

29. Chapter 27 - Cloudy Weather

9 mins 54 secs

30. Chapter 28 - A New Star

5 mins 53 secs

31. Part 2 - Preliminary Chapter

11 mins 54 secs

32. Part 2, Chapter 1 - 10.20 to 10.47 in the Evening

13 mins 13 secs

33. Chapter 2 - The First Half Hour

28 mins 40 secs

34. Chapter 3 - Taking Possession

21 mins 11 secs

35. Chapter 4 - A Little Algebra

18 mins 39 secs

36. Chapter 5 - The Cold of Space

20 mins 31 secs

37. Chapter 6 - Questions and Answers

17 mins 14 secs

38. Chapter 7 - A Moment of Intoxication

22 mins 19 secs

39. Chapter 8 - 195,285 Miles from Earth

21 mins 20 secs

40. Chapter 9 - Consequences of a Deviation

15 mins 04 secs

41. Chapter 10 - Observers of the Moon

12 mins 43 secs

42. Chapter 11 - Imagination and Reality

14 mins 32 secs

43. Chapter 12 - Orographical Details

21 mins 25 secs

44. Chapter 13 - Lunar Landscapes

19 mins 22 secs

45. Chapter 14 - A Night of 354 and 1/2 Hours

23 mins 16 secs

46. Chapter 15 - Hyperbola or Parabola

26 mins 14 secs

47. Chapter 16 - The Southern Hemisphere

13 mins 10 secs

48. Chapter 17 - Tycho

20 mins 12 secs

49. Chapter 18 - Serious Questions

18 mins 04 secs

50. Chapter 19 - A Struggle with the Impossible

23 mins 28 secs

51. Chapter 20 - The Susquehanna

13 mins 38 secs

52. Chapter 21 - Maston Called In

17 mins 05 secs

53. Chapter 22 - The Rescue

17 mins 46 secs

54. Chapter 23 - The End

8 mins 52 secs

55. Appendex 1 - Was Verne Wrong

18 mins 29 secs

56. Appendix 2 - The Conquest of Space Series

56 mins 54 secs

57. Narrator's Note

1 mins 04 secs

58. e2m 9999 Closing Credits

0 mins 34 secs

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