Journey to the Moon

‘How many things dismissed out of hand yesterday turn out to be true tomorrow?’

 

In 1865 Jules Verne invented the techno-thriller and changed the future of space exploration using a deep hole and thousands of tons of gunpowder to blast two unemployed American gunners and a crazy Frenchman through the Earth’s escape-velocity barrier and at the Moon. Overcoming weightlessness, a terrifying encounter with an asteroid, and the dangers of getting lost in outer space or being stranded in a lunar crater, the three men need to find a way to change course and get home without crash-landing.

This first ever edition as Verne wished, without the howlers of previous publications, benefits from new research into the manuscripts and sources. Through its inimitable blend of science, humour and verbal brilliance, Journey to the Moon has fired generations of writers and astronauts to open up humanity to the space age.

 

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Prelims and part of the introduction
moonch1and2.pdf

Jules Verne

Journey to the Moon

 

Translated and Edited by David Coward and William Butcher

University of Oxford Press

World's Classics

9780198941781

 

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Reviews:

"The translation, introduction, and notes are beautifully done", Tad Davis

"Recommended", North American Jules Verne Society