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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ... THE HISTORY OF A YOYAGE TO THE MOON. CHAPTER I. The Narrator's personal history.--The Legend. IS common life a community of interests is sufficient to establish a friendliness of feeling between the most selfish minds. But when men join in hazardous enterprises, risking life to gain, what to the rest of the world it seems positive insanity to attempt, there is mostly a stronger feeling existent. If they are two, and, as it generally happens, one only is really a dominant spirit, the attachment of his companion to himself is based principally upon reverence; while his affection springs from the pleasure that almost all men feel in having some one to confide in, and from vanity gratified by the deference (real but not servile) and devotion of his companion. Such friends had Columbus and Cortes, and such, to a certain extent, is the relation between the writer and his companion. Thus it is most proper that I, who neither conceived, nor was essentially connected with the conception of the plans of the enterprise, yet was accessory to their being carried out, should pen the following narrative, and at the same time do justice to the great scientific ability and daring genius of my fellowadventurer, to whom alone the success of the enterprise is due. Without further preface, then, I shall commence the narration of our history, touching upon the subject of my parentage and early life, because necessary, but with all possible brevity. My father was an English merchant of the name of Howard, formerly resident at Barcelona, in Spain, where he married a Spanish lady of fortune, of which union I am the sole offspring, my mother dying when I was but two years old. My father desiring to give me a good English education, and not being on terras of...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781230331898
  • Publisher: Theclassics.Us
  • Publisher Imprint: Theclassics.Us
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 62
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1230331891
  • Publisher Date: 12 Sep 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 127 gr


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