MOON TRAVELLERS: A DREAM THAT IS BECOMING A REALITY

by Peter Leighton

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First edition

London: Oldbourne, 1960 . Octavo, pp. 1-4 5-240, boards. First edition. Following a brief two-chapter survey of pre-twentieth-century imaginary lunar voyages, Leighton's book provides summaries with liberal quotations from the texts of Lucian's True History, Kepler's Dream About the Moon, Godwin's The Man in the Moone, Wilkins' Discovery of a New World, Cyrano de Bergerac's Voyage to the Moon, Defoe's The Consolidator,

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