false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168393884m/32827.jpg 32827 91 Verne's 1865 tale of a trip to the moon is (as you'd expect from Verne) great fun, even if bits of it now seem, in retrospect, a little strange. Our rocket ship gets shot out of a cannon? To the moon? Goodness!<P> But in other ways it's full of eerie bits of business that turned out to be very near reality: he had the cost, when you adjust for inflation, almost exactly right. There are other similarities, too. Verne's cannon was named the <I>Columbiad</I>; the Apollo 11 command module was named <I>Columbia.</I> Apollo 11 had a three-person crew, just as Verne's did; and both blasted off from the American state of Florida. Even the return to earth happened in more-or-less the same place.<P> Coincidence -- or <I>fact!?</I> We say you'll have to read this story yourself to judge. 1902242 book 1865 From the Earth to the Moon total:959|5:187|4:308|3:354|2:90|1:20| 959 3429 1327 47 4 1 false true Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 19:42:11 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 04:33:13 -0700 2009
Holy Verne, it's been so long since my last fix of his work. Two years perhaps. From the Earth to the Moon is light but still well written. This book was published in 1865, more ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Oct 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 14:33:34 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 14:42:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 04:43:42 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 10:02:46 -0800 2008 From the Earth to the Moon details a fictional experiment by the B...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Jan 02 19:17:38 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 02 19:22:21 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 23:28:01 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 20:19:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Apr 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 23:04:52 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 16:22:09 -0700 2009 five and six, which are mostly about the physical nature of the Moon but have a great style to them.
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I had to keep in mind that this was written in the 1860s as some of the ideas sounded so real. It was truly a novel before...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jan 30 08:33:53 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 08:41:52 -0800 2009 Really? C'mon -- even in Verne's day, it wasn't hard to figure out that those kind of forces would be bad for the human body. Not to mention, "we'll just open the port hole into hard vacuum, to...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 15:32:33 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 15:34:12 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 16:33:44 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 16:35:16 -0700 2009 1 5 0 false false Sat Oct 11 04:43:27 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 11 05:12:04 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1991 Sat Dec 13 23:21:39 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 23:23:08 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri May 08 10:27:30 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 10:34:23 -0700 2009 the only problem is that some scientific basis are ignored,which is also forgivable,since the scientific knowledge wasn't much advanced by that time.]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Fri Jan 09 15:46:17 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 19:52:31 -0800 2009 it has a mix of fantasy and historical fiction.
This one person in the book,Cavour builds this new substance and
he says that he can get to the moon and back. Now if you want to find the details and information read this wonderful book
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