Genre: | Children |
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Language : | English |
Published: | October 01, 2006 |
Edition: | 9th |
Paperback | |
ISBN13: | 9781598184549 |
ISBN10: | 1598184547 |
Pages: | 136 |
Dimensions: | 6.0 x 9.0 x 0.32 inches |
Weight: | 210 g |
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. 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.