ALL AROUND THE MOON - 10

by Jules Verne in English Science-Fiction

CHAPTER X. THE OBSERVERS OF THE MOON. Barbican's happy conjecture had probably hit the nail on the head. The divergency even of a second may amount to millions of miles if you only have your lines long enough. The ...Read Morehad certainly gone off its direct course; whatever the cause, the fact was undoubted. It was a great pity. The daring attempt must end in a failure due altogether to a fortuitous accident, against which no human foresight could have possibly taken precaution. Unless in case of the occurrence of some other most improbable accident, reaching the Moon was evidently Read Less