From the Earth to the Moon, Version 2: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
From the Earth to the Moon, Version 2 by Jules Verne: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 28 original MP3 tracks, 5:05:49 running time and a link to listen.
From the Earth to the Moon, Version 2, credited to Jules Verne, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of From the Earth to the Moon, Version 2 by Jules Verne. (Translated by Louis Mercier.) Read in English by Mark F. Smith 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
Recording facts
- Recording title: From the Earth to the Moon, Version 2
- Author credits: Jules Verne
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 28
- Listed recording duration: 5:05:49
Catalogue topics
- space travel
- moon
Opening tracks: first 24 of 28
- 01 - The Gun Club — 13:45
- 02 - President Barbicane's Communication — 16:19
- 03 - Effect of the President's Communication — 7:32
- 04 - Reply From the Observatory of Cambridge — 12:08
- 05 - The Romance of the Moon — 10:47
- 06- The Permissive Limits of Ignorance and Belief in the United States — 10:44
- 07 - Hymn of the Cannon-Ball — 14:06
- 08 - History of the Cannon — 9:21
- 09 - The Question of the Powders — 11:51
- 10 - One Enemy vs. Twenty-Five Millions of Friends — 10:38
- 11 - Florida and Texas — 10:46
- 12 - Urbi et Orbi — 12:17
- 13 - Stones Hill — 10:26
- 14 - Pickaxe and Trowel — 10:30
- 15 - The Fete of the Casting — 10:29
- 16 - The Columbiad — 9:22
- 17 - A Telegraphic Despatch — 2:14
- 18 - The Passenger of the 'Atlanta' — 12:19
- 19 - Monster Meeting — 16:34
- 20 - Attack and Riposte — 18:55
- 21 - How a Frenchman Manages an Affair — 17:38
- 22 - The New Citizen of the United States — 10:14
- 23 - The Projectile-Vehicle — 7:31
- 24 - The Telescope of the Rocky Mountains — 7:25
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