|
BooksShouldBeFree.com Your source for free audio books. Download one in mp3, iPod and iTunes format today. |
|
| From the Earth to the Moon |
|---|
| Audio book preview: |
FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON A TRIP AROUND IT CHAPTER I During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland. It is well known with what energy the taste for military matters became developed among that nation of ship-owners, shopkeepers, and mechanics. Simple tradesmen jumped their counters to become extemporized captains, colonels, and generals, without having ever passed the School of Instruction at West Point; nevertheless; they quickly rivaled their compeers of the old continent, and, like them, carried off victories by dint of lavish expenditure in ammunition, money, and men. But the point in which the Americans singularly distanced the Europeans was in the science of gunnery. Not, indeed, that their weapons retained a higher degree of perfection than theirs, but |
Add audio book to Itunes as a pod cast (4:38:33 long) |
Download mp3 files for each chapter of this book in one zip file (134 MB) |
| Full text and other links |
|---|
| Gutenberg e-text |
| Wikipedia – Jules Verne |
| Wikipedia – From the Earth to the Moon |
| Wikipedia – Lewis Page Mercier |
| Round the Moon |
| Genres for this book |
|---|
| Fiction |
| Adventure |
| Science fiction |
| Teen/Young adult |
Similar free audio books — Fiction Books | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Greylorn Keith Laumer |
 Pride and Prejudice (version 2) Jane Austen 
|
 Swiss Family Robinson, The Johann David Wyss |
 Old Man in the Corner, The Emmuska, Baroness Orczy 
|
Popular Genres
| All Genres |
|---|
| Audio Book Language |
|---|
