De la Terre à la Lune Series by Jules Verne

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  • From the Earth to the Moon (De la Terre à la Lune #1)
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    From the Earth to the Moon (De la Terre à la Lune #1)

    Jules Verne

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings · published 1865

    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! 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 Columbiad; the Apollo 11 command module was named Columbia... more

  • All Around The Moon (De la Terre à la Lune #2)
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    All Around The Moon (De la Terre à la Lune #2)

    Jules Verne

    Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings · published 1865

    This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience... more

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