Barbicane, Nicholl and the irrepressible Frenchman Michel Ardan have been shot from the Baltimore Gun Club’s enormous cannon, and this sequel follows them inside their projectile. They cope with cold, weightlessness and a near-miss with a meteor, and swing past the lunar mountains and craters, arguing all the way about what they see and whether they can ever get home.
Verne’s sequel to From the Earth to the Moon, in Edward Roth’s lively 1870s American translation. Download the free EPUB.