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Jules Verne From the Earth to the Moon / Around the Moon (Paperback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: From the Earth to the Moon / Around the MoonCondition: NewEAN: 9781840226706ISBN: 9781840226706Publisher: Wordsworth Editions LtdFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 08/05/2011Item Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmItem Width: 23mmItem Weight: 278gAuthor: Jules VerneContributor: Alex Dolby (Introduction and notes by), Dr Keith Carabine (Series edited by)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1840226706Description: Jules Verne (1828-1905) was internationally famous as the author of novels based on ‘extraordinary voyages.’ His visionary use of new travel technologies inspired his readers to look to the industrial future rather than the remote past for their dreams of adventure. The popularity of his novels led directly to modern science fiction.In From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon, Jules Verne turned the ancient fantasy of space flight into a believable technological possibility – an engineering dream for the industrial age. Directly inspired by Verne’s story, enthusiasts worked successfully at overcoming the practical difficulties, and within a century, human beings did indeed fly to the Moon. Curiously, however, Verne is unlikely to have thought it possible that a manned projectile could actually be fired out of a giant cannon, rising higher than the Moon, swinging around it, and then landing safely back on Earth. He had used the science of the day to construct a literary conjuring trick, a hoax, one of the most successful in all history. By skilful misdirection he drew the attention of readers away from weaknesses in the project. Read the book and you, too, will be fooled into accepting the realistic possibility in Verne’s time of that dream of flying to the Moon.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: FictionBook Series: Wordsworth ClassicsTopic: Classic FictionRelease Year: 2011 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Book Title: From the Earth to the Moon / Around the Moon

Publication Name: From the Earth to the Moon / Around the Moon

Title: From the Earth to the Moon / Around the Moon

EAN: 9781840226706

ISBN: 9781840226706

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd

Format: Paperback

Release Date: 08/05/2011

Release Year: 2011

Item Height: 198mm

Item Length: 129mm

Item Width: 23mm

Item Weight: 278g

Author: Jules Verne

Contributor: Dr Keith Carabine (Series edited by)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1840226706

Country/Region of Manufacture: GB

Genre: Fiction

Series: Wordsworth Classics

Topic: Classic Fiction

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