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DE LA TERRE A LA LUNE

By VERNE JULES

DE LA TERRE A LA LUNE

By VERNE JULES

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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 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. 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. Coincidence -- or fact!? We say you'll have to read this story yourself to judge.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
2012
Publisher:
EDITIONS HEMMA
Languages:
Published: English
ISBN10:
287422281X
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