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LibriVox recording of From the Earth to the Moon, Version 2 by Jules Verne. (Translated by Louis Mercier.) Read in English by Mark F. Smith Jules Verne takes aim at some amusing stereotypes of Americans in this story of a pre-rocketry attempt to shoot a cannonball to the Moon. Those Yankees don’t do anything by halves! His means is a Columbiad cannon so enormous that it must be bored 900 feet into the ground, so immense that 1200 smelting furnaces would be needed to create the iron for its casting, so stupendous that 100 tons of guncotton would be needed to loft its cannonball heavenwards. The
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- April 25, 2026
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From the Earth to the Moon, Version 2 by Jules Verne
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