A Trip Around It

Baltimore Gun Club #2

by Jules Verne

In this sequel to From the Earth to the Moon, Barbicane, Ardan, and Nicholl have decided to take a trip around the moon. But first they have to get to the moon from Earth. Will their trip succeed as they attempt to dodge asteroids and realize that the scientists on Earth have miscalculated their trajectory towards the moon?

Genres: Science Fiction, Classics, Fiction, Adventure, France, Fantasy, French Literature

279 pages, CD-ROM

First published January 1, 1869

About the author

Novels of French writer Jules Gabriel Verne, considered the founder of modern science fiction, include Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).

This author who pioneered the genre. People best know him for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870).

Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before people invented navigable aircraft and practical submarines and devised any means of spacecraft. He ranks behind Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie as the second most translated author of all time. People made his prominent films. People often refer to Verne alongside Herbert George Wells as the "father of science fiction."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_V...

Reviews

[Luís · Rating 5 out of 5]

The second part of the journey to the moon is told with precision as one sees the first lunar orbit of Apollo VIII with many advances. This extraordinary journey is an absolute pleasure, like From the Earth to the Moon.

[Ali Book World · Rating 3 out of 5]

واقعا ژول ورن دو قرن پیش چنین کتابی نوشته؟ 👏

[Parmida R. A. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Around the Moon, Jules Verne's sequel to From the Earth to the Moon, is another fascinating story by Verne. Seemingly, the author had sophisticated knowledge on space and physics of his time, and he boldy express the journey in fine details.

[fleurette · Rating 3 out of 5]

It certainly won't be my favorite Verne book, but I still think it's worth reading. Even if it is a bit boring at times.

As in many of his books, Verne devotes a lot of space to very detailed scientific explanations. For someone like me who is completely not interested in astrophysics, this is not particularly interesting. But I can't underestimate the huge amount of work the author did to write this book. Collecting all this information in the pre-internet era, and in some point also before the spread of science due to the globalization, was way of a challenge.

And how many things that Verne wrote about a hundred years before the era of space flight, found their confirmation in reality. As I said, I am not a specialist in these subjects. But it seems to me that many of the things that Verne writes about are right for the space flights today. Of course, I don't mean opening windows in the space shuttle, LOL. I am surprised by this. Naturally, scientific knowledge has made tremendous progress in the last century in space exploration. But all the more surprising how much Verne has been able to predict the future. What probably puzzles me the most is why the missile was launched from Florida. I haven't read the previous book, in which this may be explained, maybe I'll do it.

I was surprised by one more thing that I don't quite know what to think about. This book is very pro-American. Americans are depicted not only as great scientists, but also as a great society and nation. I think I have to read a little bit about the reasons why the author wrote in this way. I'm sure there's something behind it.

Anyway, this is a short and interesting read, even if not always entertaining for a modern reader.

[Samichtime · Rating 2 out of 5]

I liked the ending but I gotta be honest: 60% of this book sucked. Ideas were good but not written well enough to get a passing grade. 📝

Entire book could be condensed to this:

“Hello, my name’s Jules Verne. I wrote 20,000 Leagues Under the sea. I think men will reach the bottom of the sea, invent electric clocks, and go the moon. Please make a statue of me. Goodbye.” 🗿

Bored me to the next level. 💤💤💤

[Tanabrus · Rating 3 out of 5]

Un volume molto meno piacevole rispetto a Dalla Terra alla Luna, di cui pure prosegue il racconto.

In questo volume RBA abbiamo Intorno alla luna e il racconto Un inverno tra i ghiacci.
La prima parte, che sarebbe dovuta essere il piatto forte, è abbastanza deludente purtroppo.
Riprende la storia del proiettile sparato verso la luna, che avevamo lasciato con la scoperta dell'errore della traiettoria e la sua condanna a orbitare intorno al nostro satellite.
Qui ripercorriamo gli eventi a partire dal lancio, ma dal punto di vista dei tre passeggeri: cosa facevano, a cosa pensavano e cosa speravano durante il lancio e il viaggio.
L'incontro col bolide che gli fa deviare la traiettoria quel tanto che basta per non farli arrivare sulla Luna. E poi, la scoperta del fato cui sono condannati, e la decisione di fare qualcosa per rompere questo equilibrio.
Il tutto, però, condito da capitoli su capitoli di descrizioni della morfologia lunare, di elenchi di studiosi e di studi relativi alla luna, di ipotesi sul suo passato e su cosa possa esserci adesso.
Capitoli. Su. Capitoli.
La tentazione di saltarli del tutto a un certo punto era enorme.
E poi, solo ora ai tre viene in mente che si, arrivare sulla luna, ma poi come si farà a tornare indietro? E capisco il taglio ironico e spaccone dei personaggi, ma archiviare il tutto con un "non si parla del ritorno finchè si è ancora in viaggio, perdinci!" è un po' troppo anche per loro...


Meglio invece il racconto, una storia di marinai francesi che, tornati a Dunquerque senza più il loro capitano disperso in mare durante un tentato salvataggio, ripartono assieme al proprietario della nave (e padre del capitano) per cercarlo.
Con loro anche la promessa sposa del capitano (e nipote del proprietario. Si, esatto), e un secondo che fin dalle prime pagine si capisce cosa stia orchestrando e a cosa miri.
Malgrado l'ovvietà del secondo olandese, la storia non è male, un'avventura tra i ghiacci del nord, mi ha ricordato la parte di Ventimila leghe sotto i mari al polo sud per i rischi affrontati.
Anche se qui, in superficie tra acque glaciali, ci sono anche altri problemi oltre alla natura: bufere, orsi polari, e gli uomini.
Ecco, l'unica parte sottotono di questo racconto sono i norvegesi: ma come, questo poveraccio cerca di salvarvi dal maelstrom, alla fine condivide il vostro fato, vi tiene in vita in mezzo ai ghiacci assieme ai suoi compagni coi quali era giunto in vostro soccorso, e voi lo prendete in odio e anzi lo attaccate? Penso sia la prima volta che trovo Verne descrivere in maniera così incattivita una popolazione, chissà che brutta esperienza aveva avuto con un qualche abitante della Norvegia...

[Elliot A · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was very disappointed by this sequel to From the Earth to the Moon. It seemed to me that the author followed an advice to change the narration style from narrator-focused to dialogue-driven, which diminishes the fantastic element that made the first part so interesting and adventurous.

Having said that, as a result of focusing more on the dialogue between the three characters present and the nature of the story and narration as a whole, these three men felt absurd in their behaviour and speech.

The progress of the journey and the "science" behind such a journey to outer space cannot be easily described purely through dialogue alone, therefore the majority of the story felt more like a badly scripted after-school special.

Reading this story, which was so dragged out and uninteresting, made me look forward to the end of each chapter so that I could take a break from continuously rolling my eyes.

I was hoping for a story of great adventure, narration and science fiction, unfortunately I was left with nothing more than 148 pages of boredom.

There were of few glimpses within the narration that resembled the narration in From the Earth to the Moon, which I so enjoyed and actually inclined me to give its sequel two stars instead of just one.

Sadly it wasn't enough for me to reach for another Jules Verne book for a while.

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[Kaya Kobold · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wie unfassbar weitsichtig. Ich musste ganz oft 1865ff denken, wenn wieder ein Detail unbeschreiblich nah an der Realität war.

100 Jahre vor der Mondlandung schreibt ein französischer Jurist sehr ausführlich, mathematisch exakt und unterhaltsam, wie so eine Reise vonstatten geht.

[Efka · Rating 2 out of 5]

Faktiškai tai net ne romanas, o labai ilgas ir esamu momentu jau siaubingai netikslus Wiki straipsnis su trimis pajacais įkištais komiškam palengvinimui. Absurdas. 2* vien iš pagarbos žymiam ir mano labai gerbiamam autoriui, o šiaip - nekažką.

[EscudrinandoLibros · Rating 2 out of 5]

Es un libro complicado de leer, por el.lenguaje científico que maneja, habían partes en la que sinceramente mi cerebro hizo ¡boom! y la lectura no la disfrute al 100 % sin embargo no voy a decir que es un libro que no me gustó, ya que algo que no se le puede quitar a estar autor es esa enorme inventiva que tenia, más la forma de adelantarse a los acontecimientos de su época. Hay muchas descripciones detalladas sobre el espacio sideral, la luna 🌚 e inclusive la tierra 🌍, bastante álgebra y uno que otro toque de humor, para los amantes de la astronomía este le viene como anillo al dedo y se los recomiendo, al menos a ellos.

[William Catalán · Rating 5 out of 5]

Increíble es lo único que puedo decir porque es tanta la creatividad, imaginación y realismo que tiene esta novela que las palabras para describirla se quedan cortas. La historia en unas cuantas veces puede ser pesada por que se emplea lenguaje matemático y físico para describir el viaje y las características que se observan en la Luna, pero por otra parte ayudan al darle un sentido lógico alas situaciones muy pero muy convencionales y desfavorables que le suceden a los protagonistas durante su viaje por el cosmos.

[Mike · Rating 4 out of 5]

The review from afar – No. 26

Re-revised forward to these overseas reviews:
Since emulating a yo-yo, I continue to rely on the old-style Kindle 3G for any non-technical reading. I tip my hat to the fine folks at Project Gutenberg: virtually every title I have or will be reading in the near future comes from them.

Around the Moon is the sequel to the amazing adventures of Barbicane, Nicholl, and Ardan (not to be confused with Rocky and Bullwinkle), first related in Jules Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon (FTETTM). (I read them as a set on the Kindle, but they were originally separate books.) It picks up pretty much where FTETTM left off which was not quite a cliffhanger, but certainly no bed of roses for our intrepid explorers!

It’s really hard to say much about the circumstances that link the two books without writing a massive spoiler. So, I’m going to dodge that bullet, hum a few melodies and use subterfuge and misdirection instead…

One of the things that I wondered about when reading these two books was the issue of, “does the moon have an atmosphere?” I’m generalizing here to any atmosphere because I think that the more specific breathable atmosphere would have been beyond the scope of science to determine when the book was written. (I believe that spectral lines from our sun were not observed until 4-5 years after FTETTM was penned and at that it was done using the sun’s own light during an eclipse. I do not think that they would have been able – even at that later time to analyze the gases present in any lunar atmosphere using that technique.)

Returning to the question, it is an essential claim in FTETTM which changes the mission to one of a manned adventure. But if they were wrong, then they were doomed to a relatively rapid and lonely extinction. (They bring oxygen/air on board to provide oxygen for themselves and for the gas lamp/heater/cooking fire that they use to provide heat & light during those parts of the journey when they are not in direct sunlight. So, it’s not that Verne was unaware of the need for oxygen – or for that matter the removal of carbon dioxide.) It is a gambler’s bet and that gambler was Michel Ardan who generates so much public interest and support in the concept of going to the moon that he gets the fairly stuffy and proper Brisbane and Nicholl (at the time fierce opponents) to go with him. Leave it to those crazy Frenchman!

The discussion/argument about the existence of an atmosphere is to me not up to the level of scientific discourse that Verne uses to propose and construct the gun, the projectile (capsule) and propellant. Perhaps I am quibbling, but it devolves into a form of demagoguery rather than learned debate. It’s one of my few disappointments with the story. One ought not to risk one’s life on the cleverness of a turn-of-phrase or the ability of one to shout louder than the rest. Reminds me of televangicals!

Still, Around the Moon is a good conclusion to the story and one that keeps the smiles coming. It’s a Boy’s Own adventure in outer space even if all of the “boys” are middle-aged or older. Verne scores another award for precognition in final pages of the book, but that’s full spoiler material, so mum’s the word.

Four more (4.0) Stars that will have you floating in zero-gee.

You can get this book for free from the Gutenberg Project site.

[Joe Wisniewski · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the continuation of the story "from the earth to the moon". It was written in a different era obviously, when the thoughts of travel to the moon and outer space travel were still of a nature of almost romantic fantasy. Unfortunately, we have become caloused to such endeavors as they now occur so frequently.

For some readers, the painstaking detail of the geography of the moon as described by our travelers may seem monotonous, boring and even trivial. Again, this was written for another time when such details were simply not thought about or described anywhere in any detail.

I loved the story. Alas, to live in a time when such travel was a fantasy.

[محمد نجابتی · Rating 5 out of 5]

آثار ژول ورن بارها و بارها به فارسی ترجمه شدن منتها به‌جز دو سه مورد هیچ‌کدوم «متن کامل» اثر رو شامل نمی‌شن. فرق اساسی مجموعۀ بالا که انتشارات ققنوس منتشرش کرده همینه و اگر به حجم کتاب‌ها نگاه کنید خودتون این تفاوت رو متوجه می‌شید (پنج هفته در بالن 390 صفحه، سفر به مرکز زمین 350 صفحه، دور دنیا در هشتاد روز 335 صفحه و دور ماه 275 صفحه).
فرق دیگۀ این مجموعه اینه که همه مستقیماً از زبان فرانسه ترجمه شدن، نه از انگلیسی و...
این مجموعه ادامه داره و به‌زودی چند اثر دیگه هم بهش اضافه خواهد شد.

[Stiven Salazar · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ha sido realmente muy interesante ver como un adelantado a su tiempo como los es Julio Verne, como en la época de 1800 imagino e intentó explicar toda la preparación para la llegada por primera vez del hombre a la Luna, de como se creía que esta estaba habitada y muchas cosas que con cierto "rigor científico" Verne añade a sus historias, esto último es lo que a veces me echa hacia atrás, ya que llena por varias paginas con explicaciones netamente científicas o explicaciones matemáticas del tema en cuestión, sin embargo eso no es impedimento para disfrutar de este autor

[Tanaz · Rating 5 out of 5]

آثار کلاسیکِ دوست داشتنی
^_^
اینکه کتابی رو بخونی که ابتدا و انتها داشته باشه فراز و فرود داشته باشه شمایل اصلی داستان نویسی توش رعایت شده باشه
یه قسمت داستان خیلی طولانی نشده باشه و یه قسمت خیلی کوتاه نباشه هیجان جوری بهت منتقل شه که نتونی کتاب رو بذاری زمین و ادامه بدی ینی به عنوان یه خواننده از کتاب لذت بردی
یاد اون زمانی که عاشق آثار ژول ورن بودم بخیر چند تا کتاب از مجموعه کتابهای ترجمه شده ش هست که نخوندم هنوز این یکی از همون کتابها بود

دوسش داشتم مثل همیشه

[Carmen · Rating 4 out of 5]

¡Solo faltan cinco minutos! Respondió Barbicane.
¡Sí, cinco pequeños minutos! Replicó Miguel Ardán. ¡Y estamos encerrados en una bala, y en el fondo de un cañón de 900 pies! ¡Y debajo de esa bala hay cuatrocientas mil libras de pólvora común! Y el amigo Murchison, con el cronómetro en la mano, la vista fija en la aguja y el dedo en el aparato eléctrico, cuenta los segundos y va a lanzarnos a los espacios interplanetarios.

Ahora nos da la risa al leer cosas como esta, pero tenemos que quitarnos el sombrero ante la imaginación desbordante de Don Julio ¡Magnífico!

[Kim · Rating 3 out of 5]

"Round the Moon" is a novel by Jules Verne published in 1870. It is the sequel to "From the Earth to the Moon", written five years after that novel. There is absolutely nothing else I can think of to say about the novel that will not give away the plot to the first book. Not a single sentence, and because of that I'll make the rest of this a spoiler, if I remember that is, if I don't, then quit reading right now if you ever want to read the first book.

"Round the Moon" begins with three of the main characters from the first book on their way to the moon after being shot at it out of a cannon. They decided upon this rather unusual travel idea from our main character Barbicane, the president of the "Gun Club" in Baltimore who couldn't think of anything else to do with all the guns and cannons they had left after the civil war except fire at the moon. At first he and everybody else in the world seemed content just to shoot a "projectile" at the moon until Michel Ardan shows up announcing he's going to go to the moon inside the projectile and no one seems to have a problem with that even though no one knows who he is. Oh, other than being a "French adventurer" I don't know who he is either. He was supposedly inspired by the real-life photographer Félix Nadar. I haven't looked that up yet and I have a feeling that the real life photographer managed to stay on earth his entire life. So we have Ardan going to the moon, then we add Barbicane and his old rival and enemy, Captain Nicholl, an armor-making rival, who claims that the entire idea is absurd, will never work and after a rather strong fight with Barbicane over it they both agree to go along to the moon to prove which one of them is right. I think all three are crazy. For Barbicane to be right he will end up on the moon with no way of returning, unless he's planning on building a returning cannon and cannon projectile when he gets there, Nicholl, who can only be right if they die trying to get there, and Ardan who seems to be going no matter who is right. It doesn't matter now, it's too late to change their minds because they've finally been shot into space. I waited all the first book for this moment. Oh, they take two dogs along with them too but I can't remember why. The first chapter ends with this when the cannon is finally fired:

"Ardan, dear friend," interrupted Barbican, in a grave tone, "a serious moment is now at hand. Let us meet it with some interior recollection. Give me your hands, my dear friends."

"Certainly," said Ardan, with tears in his voice, and already at the other extreme of his apparent levity.

The three brave men united in one last, silent, but warm and impulsively affectionate pressure.

"And now, great God, our Creator, protect us! In Thee we trust!" prayed Barbican, the others joining him with folded hands and bowed heads.

"Ten, forty-six!" whispered the Captain, as he and Ardan quietly took their places on the mattresses.

Only forty seconds more!

Barbican rapidly extinguishes the gas and lies down beside his companions.

The deathlike silence now reigning in the Projectile is interrupted only by the sharp ticking of the chronometer as it beats the seconds.

Suddenly, a dreadful shock is felt, and the Projectile, shot up by the instantaneous development of 200,000 millions of cubic feet of gas, is flying into space with inconceivable rapidity!

The next chapter finds them alive but unconscious, Ardan being the first regain his senses, he goes and assists his fellow passengers and eventually everyone seems to be fine, everyone but one of the dogs that is, he was killed in the takeoff. Now, after eating a rather hearty breakfast this is the first thing they do:

"The first thing now to be done was to see after the water cask and the provision chest. They were not injured in the slightest respect, thanks to the means taken to counteract the shock. The provisions were in good condition, and abundant enough to supply the travellers for a whole year—Barbican having taken care to be on the safe side, in case the Projectile might land in a deserted region of the Moon. As for the water and the other liquors, the travellers had enough only for two months. Relying on the latest observations of astronomers, they had convinced themselves that the Moon's atmosphere, being heavy, dense and thick in the deep valleys, springs and streams of water could hardly fail to show themselves there. During the journey, therefore, and for the first year of their installation on the Lunar continent, the daring travellers would be pretty safe from all danger of hunger or thirst."

See, our travelers seem to be safe for two months at least, then they will either be living in homes on the moon or dead I suppose. Oh, breathing is taken care of also:

"The air supply proved also to be quite satisfactory. The Reiset and Regnault apparatus for producing oxygen contained a supply of chlorate of potash sufficient for two months. As the productive material had to be maintained at a temperature of between 7 and 8 hundred degrees Fahr., a steady consumption of gas was required; but here too the supply far exceeded the demand. The whole arrangement worked charmingly, requiring only an odd glance now and then. The high temperature changing the chlorate into a chloride, the oxygen was disengaged gradually but abundantly, every eighteen pounds of chlorate of potash, furnishing the seven pounds of oxygen necessary for the daily consumption of the inmates of the Projectile."

Among other things they had brought along picks, spades, and other tools that had been selected by the Captain; also various kinds of grain and various kinds of shrubs, which Ardan expected to transplant on the plains of the moon. Oh, they bring chickens too. I came to like Ardan, even though I never understood why he was there in the first place I was glad that he was, especially in times like this:

"No, Ardan; not at all. The really difficult part of the question Barbican has done. That is, to make out such an equation as takes into account all the conditions of the problem. After that, it's a simple affair of Arithmetic, requiring only a knowledge of the four rules to work it out."
"Very simple," observed Ardan, who always got muddled at any kind of a difficult sum in addition.
"Captain," said Barbican, "you could have found the formulas too, if you tried."
"I don't know about that," was the Captain's reply, "but I do know that this formula is wonderfully come at."
"Now, Ardan, listen a moment," said Barbican, "and you will see what sense there is in all these letters."
"I listen," sighed Ardan with the resignation of a martyr.
"d is the distance from the centre of the Earth to the centre of the Moon, for it is from the centres that we must calculate the attractions."
"That I comprehend."
"r is the radius of the Earth."
"That I comprehend."
"m is the mass or volume of the Earth; m prime that of the Moon. We must take the mass of the two attracting bodies into consideration, since attraction is in direct proportion to their masses."
"That I comprehend."
"g is the gravity or the velocity acquired at the end of a second by a body falling towards the centre of the Earth. Clear?"
"That I comprehend."
"Now I represent by x the varying distance that separates the Projectile from the centre of the Earth, and by v prime its velocity at that distance."
"That I comprehend."
"Finally, v is its velocity when quitting our atmosphere."
"Yes," chimed in the Captain, "it is for this point, you see, that the velocity had to be calculated, because we know already that the initial velocity is exactly the three halves of the velocity when the Projectile quits the atmosphere."
"That I don't comprehend," cried the Frenchman, energetically."


But, apropos of nothing, tell me, Barbican, what do you think of the Moon being an ancient comet, which had come so far within the sphere of the Earth's attraction as to be kept there and turned into a satellite?"
"Well, that is an original idea!" said Barbican with a smile.
"My ideas generally are of that category," observed Ardan with an affectation of dry pomposity.
"Not this time, however, friend Michael," observed M'Nicholl.
"Good, then I am a plagiarist."


"That is possible, friend Nicholl, but not probable.'
'Why not?'
'Because - By Jove! I really do not know.'
'Ah!' cried Michel, 'how many hundred volumes one might fill with what one does not know!'

'The inconvenience, in this respect, is the same for the two faces, for the light reflected by the earth, is evidently devoid of heat. However, this invisible face is still more troubled with the heat than the visible face. I say that for you, Nicholl, because Michel would probably not understand.'
'Thank you,' said Michel.'

Ok, all the things that happen to them while on their way to the moon I will leave up to you to find out for yourself. Did you know this rocket or whatever it is had windows that could actually open? I found it a little creepy that you would want to open a window while traveling through space, but I guess it's because I'm pretty sure it would be a very, very bad idea and Verne or at least his readers didn't know that yet. I'm not telling you if they ever make it to the moon or if Nicholl wins and they are still out in space somewhere. I'm not telling if they land and meet moon people (I wonder what moon people call themselves) and build houses and farms with their grain, plants and chickens. Or if they built another cannon to hurl themselves back to the earth. Go read the book and find out. Oh, the book was illustrated, here are a few of them.

[Markus · Rating 4 out of 5]

Autour de la Lune
By Jules Verne (1828 – 1925)

This book is the follow-up of “De la Terre a La Lune” and tells the story of what happened on the way to the moon.
Our three astronauts, two American scientists Barbican and Nicoll and a young French adventurer Michel Ardan are risking their lives in attempting an unknown experience.
Rocket science had yet to be invented and Jules Verne proposed the space capsule to be launched by a giant canon installed vertically into the ground, near Tampa in Florida.
The shock of the take-off like a bullet had seriously affected the tree men but they recovered. They could not remember having heard any noise of explosion on departure until Barbican worked out that they must have travelled faster than sound and therefore left the noise behind.
One of the dogs had been wounded by a loose object and later died. As the body could not be kept inside the capsule over a longer time, they decided to open a window and quickly tossed the poor thing out into space. Verne did not realize that all air inside would also have been sucked out at an instant and killed the travellers.
The absence of gravity had also been overlooked or underestimated by the author so that our friends could comfortably walk around inside their speeding capsule.
Later, they had a near-miss with a passing meteorite and soon realized that their trajectory had been deviated by its gravitational attraction and that they were going to miss the moon.
As a result, their journey would be an endless straight line into outer space. If they had enough food and water, they would run out of oxygen and die of suffocation.
However, our brave travellers never feared any of these dark prospects and were convinced that they would find solutions on the way. They spent their days discussing scientific, mathematical, and astronomical matters. The scientific and patient reader will enjoy comparing nineteenth-century knowledge and its evolution to our times.
While young Michel Ardan, never doubted he would see inhabitants, trees, rivers, and water, our two American scientists Barbican and Nicholl, began to understand the actual reality of the moon, barren, dry and void of any water and atmosphere.
The capsule's progress brought it ever closer to the moon and made details more visible than any human being had ever seen them.
While our travellers still thought they would miss their target in a straight line, the moon’s gravity captured their movement and passing through the dark side their rotation brought them back to the sunlit surface, now very close to the surface.
Suddenly Michel had the idea to use the braking powers of the landing device to slow them, taking the risk of a crash landing, and bring them to the surface.
The strategy succeeded but not as expected. Instead of landing, their vehicle got re-attracted by Earth's gravity and they found themselves on the way back to earth.

Now their fate seemed decided. They would crash at high speed on the surface of the home planet.
But our author surprises the reader with a soft landing which in a hundred years was going to be reality.
A splashdown in the ocean.
Our three friends survive brilliantly and bring the story to a happy end.
In conclusion, we may smilingly accept the technical mistakes and shortcomings of this story by Jules Verne in 1869!
But what an extraordinary achievement to have correctly imagined the great outlines of the first human moon landing in 1969. From Florida to the moon.
The American NASA Apollo 11 program with three astronauts on board.

[hannah .｡.:*☆ · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Mariano Cattaneo · Rating 2 out of 5]

Cerrando "VIAJE ALREDEDOR DE LA LUNA" continuación de "DE LA TIERRA A LA LUNA" de JULIO VERNE. "De la tierra..." fue por muchos años mi libro preferido, más allá de la creatividad de Julio Verne, por un contundente final, amargo y ruín para un libro de aventuras, más aún porque dejaba clavado una enseñanza triste pero leal. No sabía de la existencia de esta continuación, y temía por saber si ese recuerdo tan maravilloso de la primera parte iba a potenciarse o ablandarse. Debo decir que Julio Verne es un genio, pero acá me sentí estafado. El libro carece del espíritu de aventura que suele acostumbrarnos Verne, quien ya sabemos mezcla siempre su lado técnico... acá se abusa, son hojas y hojas de datos técnicos, sin sentido, tres personajes que en su anterior aventura tenían matices tremendos y emotivos, acá, son tres desdibujados genios sin ningún tipo de conflicto, nada les sale mal, nada los pone en riesgo... y el único que sufre es uno, viendo como tras avanzar en la trama van liquidando todo lo creado en el anterior. ¿Donde quedaron los rencores por ver quien era más capo?, esa personalidad egocéntrica de cada personaje que mantenía el conflicto entre dos de ellos, recordando el dramático duelo entre Barbicane y el capitán Nicholl, conflicto que se ve resuelto cuando el aventurero Ardan los convence de viajen con él a la Luna. Dándole más razón al viaje, más intriga... que pasaría con las diferencias de estos enemigos en el cautiverio de la bala-nave? ... todo eso se olvida en la secuela, acá son tres amigos bonachones, sonrientes y genios que con una libreta y un lápiz descubren y solucionan todos los mini conflictos que le suceden en el trayecto. El final?, para quien no lo haya leído no lo voy a contar, solo digo que es chato, sin gloria, fácil e incluso está casi calcado al final de otro de los grandes libros de Verne. Una lastima, pero entiendo el porque esta obra no fue muy conocida. Por mi parte, cierro este libro, y lo guardo en la biblioteca de los menos queridos dentro de mi mente... y vuelvo al original, me subo a la bala de cañón, tomo partido por uno de los dos enemigos y sigo pensando en la amargura de un final épico, donde el ego queda expuesto y te deja sin defensas ante lo verdadero... el poder desconocido del universo!.

[Noah Goats · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved De la Terre a la Lune. It was imaginative, surprisingly humorous, and fascinating in the way old science fiction can be. Old science fiction has a way of constantly surprising the reader with what it gets wrong and with what it gets right. The sequel, Autour de la Lune, which I began reading soon after finishing the first book, is likable in the same way without being quite as good. In fact, after beginning it and reading about half I was able to set it aside for over a year before coming back to it and finishing the rest.

Picking it back up was no problem. It’s a simple story with few characters and it’s just basically one event happening after another. Each event serves as a way of teaching something about space (frequently something that time has proven to be not quite correct), or to speculate about things they couldn’t have known for sure back then. Ultimately the book is quite silly (they are flying around in a huge artillery shell for eg and also they crack open a window at one point and stick a thermometer outside to take the temperature of space) but I just love Verne’s imagination and the way he did his best with the available science. I’ll bet that newer science fiction novels will look just as absurd in the future.

As with all the books of Jules Verne, the vocabulary is pretty simple, so if French is not your first language you will be able to read it without too much trouble.

[Amanda · Rating 1 out of 5]

Couldn't get into at all, the writing was so bland and seemingly pointless. Not to mention the fact that i really couldn't take it seriously- know it was written many years ago but some of the aspects of the plot were just ridiculous- the fact that Algebraic expressions are discussed in length with an air of almost the supernatural, like they're beyond normal people, and the basis of most of them was laughable, the fact that the spaceship was pretty much like a house and they sat around the couch as they took off and that they can open the portal of the ship in space as long as they do it fast. I can't even remember all of the things i was going to mention, but it wasn't even the lack of the knowledge of the time period that made this book subpar for me, it was mostly the air of pretentiousness that emanated from it

[Roman · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a very interesting book by Jules Verne. I thought it would be like Around the World in Eighty Days, yet it was more like 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. It was a little, no scratch that, a lot more scientific than I thought it would be. I liked the sly, quick humor, but in my opinion there wasn't enough of it.

[فرهاد ذکاوت · Rating 5 out of 5]

کارهای ژول ورن مانند آسیموف نسلهای زمان خودشون تا کنون ��و تحت تاثیر کتابهای جذابشون قرار دادند و برای من هم طبیعتا ژول ورن اولین نویسنده ای بود که در نوجوانی بخصوص در تابستان با ولع کتابهایش رو میخواندم. بستگی داشت چه کتابهایی به فارسی از ایشان چاپ میشد و من در کتابفروشی نزدیک خانه یا دکه روزنامه فروشی که آن زمان تعدادی کتاب هم می آورد، میتوانستم گیر بیاورم و بخرم.

این کار ژول ورن در واقع بعد از موفقیت سفر به ماه نوشت که تصور میکنم بسیاری با آن آشنا هستند. این داستان سفری اکتشافی دور ماه هست تا سمت معروف به تاریک ماه رو هم رصد کنند و بطور کلی ماه رو بیشتر بشناسند. این داستان دو مرحله دارد: شروع سفر به ماه و حزییاتی بسیار تخصصی و برای من جذاب و اتفاقا درست از محاسبات فیزیک (از سرعت فرار و جزییات فنیش تا حرکت دور ماه) استفاده میکند. خواننده با جزییات فنی و دلایل علمی و حتی محاسبات آشنا میشود. برای همین برای کسانی که به جزییات یک داستان علمی علاقه ندارند کسل کننده به نظر میرسد. در واقع میشود ادعا کرد تاکنون جز کارهای مامیکل کرایتون تنها داستان علمی با این جزییات محاسباتی هست.

راستی آزمایی جزییات فیزیکی و زیستی چندان سخت نیست اگر در حد فیزیک و زیست دبیرستان خوب خوانده باشید. پرتابه که با همین عنوان هم در داستان آمده، از فیزیک کلاسیک تبعیت میکند. در دنیای فضنوردی و پرتابه ها هم نیازی به فیزیکی بالاتر از کلاسیک ندارند. در نتیجه مباحث مطرح شده تا حدود زیادی درست هستند و حتی جالب هست در صد سالگی این داستان آپولو ۱۱ دقیقا با همین محاسبات البته با جزییاتی بیشتر و محاسبه تقریبهای بالاتر برای دقت بیشتر پرتاب شد. هزنیه هایی که ژول ورن از این سفر حدس زده به هزینه های آپولو (با احتساب تورم و ارزش دلار) تقریبا برابری میکند. (پیش بینی ورن ۹ هزار دلار بود که با احتساب تورم و ارزش پول معادل ۲۲۰ میلیون دلار میشود. پروژه آپولو ۱۱، ۳۲۵ میلیون دلار هزینه داشت که البته بروکراسی و پول گم شدنها در ساختارهای پر از کارمند رو هم باید حساب کنیم و تقریبا عدد تخمینی و ناسا معادل هم در می آیند.

همینجا اشاره کنم بعضیها که از این نوع داستانها خوششان نیامده ولی به دلایل نامعلومی خودشون رو اذیت میکنند و میخوانند نقدهایی به تمسخر نوشته اند که قابل درک هست از یک بابتی. این افراد خلاصه کارهای ژول ورن رو در این میدانند که ادعا کرده هه این پیش بینیهای درست رو به نام من بزنید و خلاص!‌ چنین نیست. ژول ورن یک متنفذ در اذهان نسلهایی بود که کنجکاو بودند و تعدادی با انگیزه ای که از کاراهایش گرفتند مهندسی و علوم پایه رو چنان دنبال کردند که در پروژه های بزرگ علمی و فنی از جمله زیردریایی و ساخت شاتل و راکت برای سفرهای فضایی پیش بینی ژول ورن رو به ورطه آزمایش بگذارند. بهرحال خواننده خودآزار و یا کتابهای سبک و مهمل کم نیست.

پیش بینی ورن از نوع پرتابه چیزی شبیه سفینه های داستانهای علمی تخیلی مدرن هست که آینده نه چندان دور انسان رو در واقع پیش بینی کرده و نه پروژه های قرن بیستم. مسلم بعضی از جزییات درست نیست در مورد ماه ولی علاقمندان به نجوم که با ماه آشنایی کافی دارند هم احتمالا از این داستان لذت میبرند. ورن با جزییات جذابی داده های رصدی تا آن زمان رو در داستان آورده. ماه دومی رو هم که به دلیل شرایط رصدی دیده نمیشده پیش بینی کرده که به آن معنایی که به ذهن خواننده خطور میکند با واقعیت تفاوت دارد. ولی میدان گرانشی سیارات اجرامی رو از فرایندهای مکانیکی زمان تشکیل منظومه خورشیدی جذب خود میکنند. نکته جالب اینکه ورن به مساله سه جسمی و نقاط لاگرانژی اشاره میکنند. نقاطی که برایند نیروهای وارده از یک سیستم گرانشی چندگانه در آنجا صفر هست. به این معنا که در همان منطقه باقی میمانند. تلسکوپ جیمز وب یکی از نمونه های کاربرد نقاط لاگرانژی برای ما هست. وب در دو بعد نوسان میکند و آن بعد سوم که منجر به حرکت و خروج از ان منطقه میشود صفر هست. پرتاب راکت حامل پرتابه به سمت ماه از فلوریدا هست یعنی ورن آشنایی داشته با نقاط گرانشی که سرعت فرار و مصرف سوخت و خروج سریعتر و راحت تر از جو زمین ممکن میشده.

جزییاتی از خروج از جو زمین و بعد از آن هم جالب هست. وقتی ماه رو بصورت سایه و روشن و دماهای بسیار متفاوت شب و روز به درستی توصیف میکند ما رو حتی یاد عطارد هم می اندازد. در آخر هم سفرهای قطعی انسان به سیارات دیگر و ماه های آنها اشاره میکند. جزییات بسیار هست ولی به نظرم برای علاقمندان با توصیفهای بالا خواندن داستان نه چندان طولانی (با استانداردهای کیلویی این سالها) بهتر باشد تا جزییاتی که میشود فنی و محاسباتی در معرفی و شرح کتاب آورد. (سفر به ماه ۱۸۶۵ و این داستان ۱۸۶۹ نوشته شده) به طبع باید ذهنمون رو ببریم به قرن ۱۹ و دانش آن زمان و نویسنده ای که تخصصش حقوق و ادبیات بود و نه علوم پایه! با این حال بسیاری از دانشمندان از ژول ورن انگیزه گرفتند. آن زمان دانش چنین وارد جزییات و شاخه های بیشمار نشده بود. بنابراین بسیار راحت تر میشد دنبالش کرد. منتهی هرکسی ژول ورن نبود!

[Sotiris Karaiskos · Rating 5 out of 5]

The second part of the amazing journey to the Moon. In this we go into more detail as our heroes, locked in their space capsule, approach the Earth's satellite, facing the dangers space throws to these daring people. Of course, a story of three people in such a limited space, adorned with a multitude of scientific details, could be extremely boring but a writer like Jules Verne was able to get much more out of it. A book that looks like a theatrical text as it is based above all on the dialogues and the interaction between the protagonists. These dialogues are full of humour, they are very inventive, they are done with a playful mood and through them the author manages in his well-known effortless way to transfer to the reader the scientific knowledge of the time. So he creates a book that every page is a small pleasure and as a whole is very exciting.

Το δεύτερο μέρος του εκπληκτικού ταξιδιού προς την Σελήνη. Σε αυτό μπαίνουμε σε περισσότερες λεπτομέρειες καθώς οι ήρωες μας, κλεισμένοι μέσα στη διαστημική τους κάψουλα, πλησιάζουν το δορυφόρο της γης, αντιμετωπίζοντας τους κινδύνους που επιφυλάσσει το διάστημα σε αυτούς τους τολμηρούς ανθρώπους. Φυσικά μία ιστορία τριών ανθρώπων σε ένα τόσο περιορισμένο χώρο, διανθισμένη από πλήθος επιστημονικών λεπτομερειών, θα μπορούσε να γίνει εξαιρετικά βαρετή αλλά ένας συγγραφέας σαν τον Ιούλιο Βερν μπόρεσε να βγάλει από αυτό κάτι πολύ περισσότερο. Ένα βιβλίο που μοιάζει με θεατρικό κείμενο καθώς βασίζεται πάνω από όλα στους διαλόγους και στην αλληλεπίδραση ανάμεσα στους πρωταγωνιστές. Αυτοί οι διάλογοι είναι γεμάτοι χιούμορ, είναι πάρα πολύ ευρηματικοί, γίνονται με μία παιχνιδιάρικη διάθεση και μέσα από αυτούς ο συγγραφέας καταφέρνει με το γνωστό αβίαστο τρόπο του να μεταφέρει στον αναγνώστη τις επιστημονικές γνώσεις της εποχής. Έτσι δημιουργεί ένα βιβλίο που κάθε σελίδα του είναι μία μικρή απόλαυση και στο σύνολό του είναι ιδιαίτερα συναρπαστικό.

[Lucía · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hola!! 😊

Cuando empecé a leerlo lo primero que vi fue: "Resumen de Viaje a la luna (Novela de la que es continuación viaje alrededor de la luna)"😒 Eso me pasa por comprar algo sin haber investigado antes! Por dicha la editorial fue amable en darnos un resumen.

Viaje alrededor de la luna es sin dudarlo una joya!!! Para ser sincera tarde leyendo este libro 2 semanas a pesar de tener solo 240 páginas ¿Porqué? Pues para mi si resultó un poco complicada la lectura, da demasiadas descripciones sobre muchas cosas, aveces en un lenguaje cientifico, matemático y geográfico (que probalemente no son reales) así que tuve que ir despacio.

Nos habla sobre la aventura de 3 hombres: Barbicane, Nicholl y Michel, dos perros: Satellite y Diana y unas cuantas gallinas a bordo de una "bala", donde cada uno debe aportar sus conocimientos para que la misión tenga éxito.

Voy a hacer spoiler! pero tengo que decirlo, me sentí tan mal por Satellite 😔, en fin, hubieron partes donde se me hacía muy divertida la novela y hasta me identifiqué con Michel, fue interesante pasar 6 días (eso fue lo que duró el viaje a la luna) con esos tres y vivir todo el suspenso de su regreso a la tierra

Había leído que Julio Verne fue un futurista pero no había tenido idea de que hablaban hasta que leí este libro, me gustó mucho esta novela y eso que no soy fan de la ciencia ficción.

La recomiendo, es muy interesante hacia donde nos hace viajar este autor, haya o no dado datos reales, eso es lo de menos! Lo importante para mí ha sido el ingenio y su visión.

[Alex · Rating 4 out of 5]

I forget how light and breezy Verne's writing can be. This novel surprised me by both how fast I went through it, and the actual math behind it.
So, part 2 of the story of the American Gun Club (the fictional NRA, lmao) being so bored out of their brains they decide to shoot the moon. And topping that, they also agreed on putting three passengers in said bullet "for science": two American scientists (Mr Barbicane and Nicholl), more or less closely related to the gun club, and a French artist, who doesn't want anything less than to live on the moon. The latter is also used as blank slate for us readers so that all the science and maths can be explained to us.
There's also some good amount of ingenuity going in there that Jules Verne had to think of, in order to believably send three people to space.
This of course raises the important question: could we shoot a bullet to the moon using what Verne described? The maths seems to make sense.
Although some of the events described are dated and proven false by now, I like how he seemingly picks a subject at random and runs with it. I'm also surprised the BBC didn't make a Doctor Who episode with him, the best we had was Tennant in 80 around the world.

[G · Rating 3 out of 5]

Es mejor el corto de los Méliès. En Verne ni alunizan. Se la pasan filosofando y tirando basura por la ventana. Hasta un perro muerto tiran, entre botellas de champán. El libro corre por cuenta de la fantasía del lector. La narración, a pesar de lo que parece, tiene poca acción. Más bien demora demasiado en los diálogos delirantes de tres narcisistas que se las dan de sabios, o de aventureros, o de dueños del mundo. De eso se trata, de conquistar el mundo. El motor del libro es imperialista. La fruición de Verne me parece que está en la divulgación científica y en el regodeo de la idiosincrasia nacional. Los norteamericanos son sabios, pragmáticos y valientes. Los franceses son aventureros que saben vivir la vida, su intuición los hace más sabios que a los norteamericanos. Claro que Verne estaba configurando un género. Hoy eso importa poco. Queda un entusiasmo que desborda el libro, aunque no por la ciencia -que no vale nada a pesar de su siempre fracasado mesianismo-, sino por la fabulación. Me gustaron más los guerreros selenitas de los Méliès.

[Demeter Kate · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ich finde es schwierig hier zu bewerten.

Es ist faszinierend wie Verne die wissenschaftlichen Errungenschaften der Zeit integriert und dabei oft richtiger liegt als gedacht. Auch wenn vieles unrealistisch war, ist der Aufbau einer These, die innerhalb der Geschichte noch geprüft und gutes bestätigt und Falsches nachgewiesen wird, echt beeindruckend

Für jemanden der nur rudimentärstes Wissen in Physik etc. hat, sind die detailgenauen Erklärungen der Mathematik und Physik eher „langweilig“ ( er könnte da auch einfach Unfug schreiben und ich würde es nicht nachrechnen können LOL)

Ansonsten ist die Dynamik der 3 Männer witzig und hoffentlich eine gesellschaftliche Persiflage und nicht als Verherrlichung des Gehabes gemeint.

Ansonsten fühlt es sich nicht nach einer Fiktion an. Eher als Tagebuch oder Beschreibung einer Situation mit Konversation.