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Re: Annotated Earth to Moon

From: James D. Keeline <keeline~at~adnc.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 17:12:35 -0800
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>

Norm Wolcott wrote:
>
> I have just purchased a copy of W.J. Miller's "Annotated JV" The bits I
> have read so far are fascinating, each chapter almost a lecture in itself.
> Too bad he hasn't done a lot of books the same way. 20K would be a great
> one. I was particularly interested in Chapter I as I used to work at the
> Dahlgren Laboratory, where the descendants of the Dahlgren gun are still
> fired occasionally, their shells being deposited 25 miles downriver in the
> middle of Chesapeake Bay (duck!)

He did do 20K (Crowell, 1976). I wish that the second half of FROM THE
EARTH TO THE MOON had been annotated (ie A TRIP AROUND THE MOON). Some
other good ones would be JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH, and AROUND
THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS.

James
Received on Tue 01 Feb 2000 - 03:14:48 IST

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