https://librivox.org/round-the-moon-version-2-by-jules-verne/
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 the careful preparations to deposit the projectile on the Moon, it appears the travelers are destined to miss it! (The book is not called “On the Moon”, is it?!)
Careful scientists at heart, the former artillerymen in the projectile note every occurrence faithfully in their notebooks, along with the details of their observations of the Moon as they fly past… and round it. That precision might pay off as they try to figure out what happens to them next: will they fly off into space, become an eternal satellite of the Moon, or perhaps, something else?
And do they have any way at all to affect that?
- Text source (only read from this text!): http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44278
NOTE: This is an omnibus including "From the Earth to the Moon", of which this is the sequel. Text for this book starts about halfway through. - Type of proof-listening required (Note: please read the PL FAQ): standard
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[*] Project Code: qPkGo7Xh
[*]Link to author on Wikipedia (if available): (Jules Verne) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Verne
[*]Link to title on Wikipedia (if available): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Around_the_Moon
[*]Number of sections (files) this project will have: 24
[*]Does the project have an introduction or preface [y/n]: No
[*]Original publication date (if known): 1869
[*]If you are a new volunteer, how would you like your name (or pseudonym) credited in the catalog? Do you have a URL you would like associated with your name?:
Genres for the project: Action & Adventure Fiction; Travel Fiction; Fantastic Fiction/Science Fiction
Keywords that describe the book: Space Travel, Moon
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[*]The reader will record the following at the beginning and end of each file:
No more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of the recording!
START of recording (Intro):
- "Chapter [number] of Round the Moon. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
- If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]" - Say:
"Round the Moon, by Jules Verne. Translated by Louis Mercier (1820 - 1875) [Chapter]"
For the second and all subsequent sections, you may optionally use the shortened form of this intro disclaimer:
- "Chapter [number] of Round the Moon by Jules Verne. This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain."
- If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]" - Only if applicable, say:
"[Chapter title]"
- At the end of the section, say:
"End of [Chapter]" - If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]" - At the end of the book, say (in addition):
"End of Round the Moon, by Jules Verne. Translated by Louis Mercier (1820 - 1875)"
There should be ~5 seconds silence at the end of the recording.