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EAN num: 9781605978550
ISBN number: 1605978558
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Page Count: 136
Printing Date: July 04, 2008
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Jules Verne wrote of space travel before the very first rocket was launched. He spoke of under water adventures before the very first submarine was built. He was born in 1828 in France. His dream was to write a new kind of novel, which combined scientific fact with fiction. Verne eventually wrote 40 novels in his Voyages extraordinaires series. 'What one man can imagine, another will someday be able to achieve.' Is a quote from an article in the Encyclopedia Britannica that sums up Verne so well. Written almost a century ago, this fantasy deals with a moon shot fired by an enormous gun from a hill in Florida. The three adventurers traveling in the capsule find themselves off course, and seem doomed to orbit the moon as a satellite forever.
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This is a terrific book for middle to high school students. It relates directly to aerospace education and provides many cross curricular applications in math, science, and language arts.
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Unfortunately, From the Earth to the Moon always struck me as being on the rather dull side, so it took me a while to get through it the very first time I read it. I can't really recommend this to many, except perhaps those interested in the history of science fiction, or really big Verne fans. The story of the very first trip to Earth's satellite.
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Jules Verne, the father of science fiction, made several predictions
that came true in this book. The book is exciting from cover to cover.
It deserves more credit than it seems to be getting. It was written over
one hundred years ago. I would recommend this book to any science fiction
fan. Danny Fleming, author of How to Prove The Collatz Conjecture.
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I love the way that Verne ended the book! His sense of humour is so subtle, and yet so great.
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This translation, one of the Barnes and Noble "Classics Editions", is the 1874 English translation by Edward Roth, a Philadelphia school-teacher. In no sense a translation, it is more a parody or retelling of the French original with many embelishments and additions by the author. The editor is Aaron Parett, an English professor from Montana. In an appendix the editor mentions that for furthur reading one might try the complete translation by Walter James Miller, "The Annotated Jules Verne: From the Earth to the Moon" published by Crowell: 1978 and reprinted by Gramercy: 1995. (In reading reviews, make sure the review applies to this ISBN number: 07060765197)
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