To Mars via the Moon: An Astronomical Story

CONTENTS

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	List of Plates and Maps	xvii
	Notes on the Maps and Charts	xix
	The Sun, Moon, and Planets	xxiii
(Narrative by Wilfrid Poynders, Esq.)
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I.	We Start on a very Long Voyage	25
II.	Personal Reminiscences—Why we Decided on the Voyage	35
III.	We Approach the Moon—a Magnificent Spectacle	44
IV.	Close to the Moon—I give some Information about it	52
V.	We View the Lunar Scenery in the Northern Hemisphere	63
VI.	The Scenery of the Moon's Southern Hemisphere	78
VII.	We Resume our Voyage—The Sun and the Sky as Seen from Space	92
VIII.	John Insists on Going Back Again—a Strange, but Amusing Incident Occurs	101
IX.	A Narrow Escape from Destruction—I give some Particulars about Mars and Martian Discovery	113
X.	The Discovery of Lines upon Mars—The Great Martian Controversy	128
XI.	The Great Martian Controversy (continued)	139
XII.	We are Mysteriously Prevented from Approaching Mars	155
XIII.	We Arrive on Mars and Meet with a Startling Surprise	162
XIV.	I Make a most Amazing Discovery	166
XV.	What is in a Name!—The Story of Merna	169
XVI.	We Learn Something about the Powers of the Martians	184
XVII.	We Visit the Canals and Discover their Secret—Martian Views of Life and Death	194
XVIII.	We Attend a Martian Banquet	207
XIX.	The Chief of the Martian Council Discusses the Social Conditions of our World and Mars	212
XX.	The Secret of the "Carets"—The Sun as Seen from Mars	224
XXI.	Our First View of the Earth from Mars—A Martian Courtship	236
XXII.	Celestial Phenomena Seen from Mars—M'Allister Receives a Practical Lesson in Gravitation	242
XXIII.	I Have a Serious Talk with John	253
XXIV.	The Martian Seasons	256
XXV.	Many Things Seen upon Mars—I Receive some News	264
XXVI.	We Witness some Wonderful Aerial Evolutions and Listen to Marvellous Music	282
XXVII.	A Farewell Banquet and a Painful Parting	293
XXVIII.	Last Words to My Readers	[Pg xvi-xvii] Clyx.com