Round the Moon (Version 2)

LibriVox recording of Round the Moon (Version 2) by Jules Verne. (Translated by Louis Mercier.) Read in English by Mark F. Smith Jules Verne’s sequel to his “From the Earth to the Moon” begins with a short chapter to catch you up, if you missed the first book. Then we join our three adventurers in their huge projectile as they gather themselves after the shock of being fired at the Moon from the Columbiad cannon. Perhaps in a nod to Yankee exceptionalism, Verne permits them an extraordinary encounter in space, and better yet – to survive it! But that encounter has a lasting effect: despite all