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Title: All Around the Moon

Author: Jules Verne

Translator: Edward Roth

Release Date: August 6, 2005 [EBook #16457]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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ALL

AROUND THE MOON

FROM THE FRENCH OF

JULES VERNE

AUTHOR OF "FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON", "TO THE SUN!" AND "OFF ON A
COMET!"

BY

EDWARD ROTH

ILLUSTRATED

PHILADELPHIA
DAVID MCKAY, PUBLISHER
23 SOUTH NINTH STREET

CONTENTS.

PRELIMINARY

I. FROM 10 P.M. TO 10. 46' 40''

II. THE FIRST HALF HOUR

III. THEY MAKE THEMSELVES AT HOME AND FEEL QUITE COMFORTABLE

IV. FOR THE CORNELL GIRLS

V. THE COLDS OF SPACE

VI. INSTRUCTIVE CONVERSATION

VII. A HIGH OLD TIME

VIII. THE NEUTRAL POINT

IX. A LITTLE OFF THE TRACK

X. THE OBSERVERS OF THE MOON

XI. FACT AND FANCY

XII. A BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF THE LUNAR MOUNTAINS

XIII. LUNAR LANDSCAPES

XIV. A NIGHT OF FIFTEEN DAYS

XV. GLIMPSES AT THE INVISIBLE

XVI. THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE

XVII. TYCHO

XVIII. PUZZLING QUESTIONS

XIX. IN EVERY FIGHT, THE IMPOSSIBLE WINS

XX. OFF THE PACIFIC COAST

XXI. NEWS FOR MARSTON!

XXII. ON THE WINGS OF THE WIND

XXIII. THE CLUB MEN GO A FISHING

XXIV. FAREWELL TO THE BALTIMORE GUN CLUB

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

1. HIS FIRST CARE WAS TO TURN ON THE GAS

2. DIANA AND SATELLITE

3. HE HELPED ARDAN TO LIFT BARBICAN

4. MORE HUNGRY THAN EITHER

5. THEY DRANK TO THE SPEEDY UNION OF THE EARTH AND HER SATELLITE

6. DON'T I THOUGH? MY HEAD IS SPLITTING WITH IT!

7. POOR SATELLITE WAS DROPPED OUT

8. THE BODY OF THE DOG THROWN OUT YESTERDAY

9. A DEMONIACAL HULLABALOO

10. THE OXYGEN! HE CRIED

11. A GROUP _a la Jardin Mabille_

12. AN IMMENSE BATTLE-FIELD PILED WITH BLEACHING BONES

13. NEVERTHELESS THE SOLUTION ESCAPED HIM

14. IT'S COLD ENOUGH TO FREEZE A WHITE BEAR

15. THEY COULD UTTER NO WORD, THEY COULD BREATHE NO PRAYER