Around the Moon (Children's Illustrated Classics) [Hardcover]

Jules Verne (Author), R. Baldick (Translator), W. Baldick (Translator)

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Publication Date: July 13, 1970 | Series: Children's Illustrated Classics

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An Antarctic Mystery (French: Le Sphinx des glaces), also known also as The Sphinx of Ice, is an 1897 novel by Jules Verne and is a sequel to Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket which was published in 1838. It follows the adventures of the narrator and his journey from the Kerguelen Islands onboard the Halbrane.

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Text: English, French (translation)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 204 pages
• Publisher: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd (July 13, 1970)
• ISBN-10: 0460050877
• ISBN-13: 978-0460050876
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,368,464 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A very exciting and entertaining read, June 12, 2009

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Kurt A. Johnson (North-Central Illinois, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Around the Moon: (Hardcover)

This book picks up immediately after From the Earth to the Moon ended. Our three intrepid astronauts are now on their way to the Moon, and begin making amazing discoveries immediately. It seems that the Earth's gravity has captured a new small satellite, an erstwhile meteor. However, the gravity of this small companion has caused a deviation of the trajectory of their ship, and it appears that they are not going to land on the Moon after all, but merely orbit it. But all is not lost, there are still more discoveries to make, and who knows what they might think of along the way!

Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon was first published in 1865(!), and this book was published in 1870, in answer to the public's demand to know what became of the astronauts. This book is as much fun as the first book in the series. True, the science behind this book is even less accurate than the first, but it is, nonetheless a very exciting and entertaining read. If you want to read a really entertaining work of paleo-science-fiction, then get this book, you will not be disappointed!

2.0 out of 5 stars Free SF Reader, September 3, 2007

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This review is from: Around the Moon: (Hardcover)

This is the sequel to Jules Verne's earlier book, From the Earth to the Moon. Basically, we have a cartographic exploration of the lunar body, and exploration. Those aboard must also struggle to find a way back to Earth safely, so that they may continue to go on living, and not be the first human corpsicles on record.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One of Verne's great space novels, April 8, 2000

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This review is from: Around the Moon (Children's Illustrated Classics) (Hardcover)

The sequel to From the Earth to the Moon I found incredible, for the charaters make a very accurate map of the moon. However, they eventually get caught in a predicament of returning to Earth, but they make it back.