A Voyage to the Moon Illustrated edition by George Tucker Literature Fiction eBooks
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On my return to this my native State, as soon as it was noised abroad that I had met with extraordinary adventures, and made a most wonderful voyage, crowds of people pressed eagerly to see me.
A Voyage to the Moon Illustrated edition by George Tucker Literature Fiction eBooks
If you remember this book was published in 1825 (before there were significant railroads in the US, much less the high tech of a moonshot) you'll be ok. The moon-ship is pressurized, and steerable, but flies via an antigravity material similar to the "unobtanium" in Avatar or the "cavorite" in H.G. Wells' First Men in The Moon.The story follows standard "Utopia" style dating from Moore's original Utopia. It is a study of culture more than the impact of technology.
To this point - the moon-people are really close cousins of Earth. The author uses a popular theory at the time - that the moon "pinched off" the earth early in its history via electrical interactions in the crust. This explains the, very human inhabitants, who are related to some Asian cultures.
Most of the story is devoted to behavior of Americans in the 1820s, satirized by using various Moon people and nations as a descriptive tool. Various tribe of Moon people act like America gone to excess.
What struck me was how "American" the ideals in the writing now. Tucker, a progressive, admires the same things we do in the American spirit today, though he also thought they could go to excess. Religion, constant new inventions and tech, strange family rituals all seem about the USA. His foil, a guru from India on the moon voyage with the hero, provides a foil.
The novel structure is a bit dated - if you've never read anything before the 20th century, you may initially find the plot over-emphasizing some details at the expense of others.
A good example of America Utopian writing with a bit of space travel built in. Later writers, e.g. Jules Verne, Percy Greg, and H.G. Wells may have been aware of this book - some similar devices are used, especially by Greg in "Across the Zodiac"
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A Voyage to the Moon Illustrated edition by George Tucker Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Whomever posted the description to this book has a small problem with who the author might be. This was written in about 1826, published in 1827 and reviewed in The American Review Quarterly #5, dated March 1828, quite extensively. It was NOT, as the description says, something from the previous 4-6 years. So, and you know who you are, change that!
Now, the actual story is somewhat pedestrian, divided into 17 somewhat lengthy chapters each with a full description of what they contain. As with Verne's From The Earth to The Moon, (1865) it is about a couple of men who travel to the Moon in a metal ship (in this case a copper square) marvel at the Earth looking back and the lunar surface looking forward, manage to land and not crash where they encounter a civilization living there. The trip is tedious in details given covering more than 2 chapters where the men discuss things like the future of the United States, the character of peoples from different d=nations, and even things regarding India and the Pacific Ocean.
On the Moon their discussions and investigations are rather mundane by today's literature standards and I couldn't help but wonder why the same story could not have been told in about 60% the words. This one features such non-suncinct sentences as
—I was born in the village of Huntingdon, on Long-Island, on the 11th day of May, 1786. Joseph Atterley, my father, formerly of East Jersey, as it was once called, had settled in this place about a year before, in consequence of having married my mother, Alice Schermerhorn, the only daughter of a snug Dutch farmer in the neighbourhood.— and a lot of them to boot!
But! if you are into literature and find authors back in the early to middle 1800s who may or may not have "borrowed" substantially from authors they believed would never be identified, then this is a fascinating look into what may very well have intrigued Jules Verne enough to rewrite the story in his own style. This is in a similar vein as Verne's 1870 "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" and a later book attributed to "Roy Rockwood" in 1900 called "The Wizard of the Sea" that is nearly a complete rip-off of the earlier Verne work.
Ah, if only copyrights had been truly in place back then.
In all I would say that if the price remains at $0.00 it is worth it. I would NEVER suggest paying for the reprint hardbound edition of this Public Domain work!
If you remember this book was published in 1825 (before there were significant railroads in the US, much less the high tech of a moonshot) you'll be ok. The moon-ship is pressurized, and steerable, but flies via an antigravity material similar to the "unobtanium" in Avatar or the "cavorite" in H.G. Wells' First Men in The Moon.
The story follows standard "Utopia" style dating from Moore's original Utopia. It is a study of culture more than the impact of technology.
To this point - the moon-people are really close cousins of Earth. The author uses a popular theory at the time - that the moon "pinched off" the earth early in its history via electrical interactions in the crust. This explains the, very human inhabitants, who are related to some Asian cultures.
Most of the story is devoted to behavior of Americans in the 1820s, satirized by using various Moon people and nations as a descriptive tool. Various tribe of Moon people act like America gone to excess.
What struck me was how "American" the ideals in the writing now. Tucker, a progressive, admires the same things we do in the American spirit today, though he also thought they could go to excess. Religion, constant new inventions and tech, strange family rituals all seem about the USA. His foil, a guru from India on the moon voyage with the hero, provides a foil.
The novel structure is a bit dated - if you've never read anything before the 20th century, you may initially find the plot over-emphasizing some details at the expense of others.
A good example of America Utopian writing with a bit of space travel built in. Later writers, e.g. Jules Verne, Percy Greg, and H.G. Wells may have been aware of this book - some similar devices are used, especially by Greg in "Across the Zodiac"
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