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A Voyage to the Moon, by George Tucker
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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. Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to publications@publicdomain.org.uk This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via DMCA@publicdomain.org.uk
A Voyage to the Moon, by George Tucker - Published on: 2015-10-20
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 11.00" h x .34" w x 8.50" l, .80 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 148 pages
A Voyage to the Moon, by George Tucker About the Author George H. Tucker earned his Ph.D. from the University of Mississippi in 1979 and was awarded a diplomate with specialty certification in Behavioral Psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology in 2003. He lives with his wife, Tami, daughter, Ralston, and son Sutton, in San Juan Capistrano, CA, where he maintains a private practice devoted to problem children, adolescents, young adults, and their families. He enjoys swimming occasionally, but his main recreational interests still lie in other sports.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A Voyage to the Moon By Steven Davis Joseph Atterley of New York, finding himself in the doldrums after the death of his wife, resolves in 1822 to undertake a sea voyage to the Far East on one of his father's merchant ships. In the Indian Ocean the ship is caught by a mighty cyclone and driven ashore somewhere in the Burmese Empire. Mistaking the Americans for their enemies the British, the Burmese take Atterley and the crew captive. Atterley is eventually placed under rather loose house arrest, which allows him to meet and befriend a reclusive Indian Brahman who lives in the nearby hills. One day the Brahman reveals an astonishing secret: he knows how to build a machine to fly to the moon, and has already been there and back twice.George Tucker was a Bermuda-born Virginian, a former Congressman, a friend of Thomas Jefferson and professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Virginia. In addition to A Voyage to the Moon he would publish a number of books on history, biography, economics and political philosophy. Ever since Utopia and Gulliver's Travels, the "fantastic voyage" genre had been a popular vehicle for political and social satire, as well as for Utopian conjectures. Tucker would cleverly use his lunar civilization to both satirize American culture and public life and to propose an ideal society.The moon vehicle Atterley and the Indian construct is a cube made of copper and reinforced against the vaccuum of space with iron bars. Its source of motive power is a metal discovered by the Brahman which, which separated from other ores, repels the gravitational force of the earth. He calls it lunarium because it is attracted to the moon to the same degree that it is repelled by the earth. The Indian has also discovered that lead has opposite properties, being repelled by the moon just as strongly as it is attracted to the earth. They bolt large plates and smaller spheres of these two element to the outside of their spacecraft in such a way that they can be released individually by a screw mechanism from inside the cabin. Dropping some of the lead allows to craft to ascend from the earth, and the attractive powers of lunarium automatically steers it toward the moon. When approaching the moon, the pilot drops lunarium so that his descent can be slowed by the remaining lead. The trip takes several days, so they carry compressed air in spherical tanks affixed to the outside of the craft.Tucker's spacecraft design is imminently practical, and would no doubt be workable if there were such a thing as lunarium. (The idea would be revisited decades later by H. G. Wells in The First Men in the Moon.) Likewise his description of the how the ascent path is affected by the earth's rotation, how the earth would look from space and from the moon's surface, and the effects of lower gravity on the moon are all completely accurate. In political matters the author's prescience is even more uncanny. He predicts that the United States would eventually span the North American continent, whereas the nations of South America would remain disunited and weakened by civil wars. He projects a population for the country in the early 21st century of "three or four hundred millions" with a declining birth rate, and said at that time the U.S. would be the most powerful nation on earth with Russia as its chief rival.The people that Atterley and the Brahman find on the moon are of our own species. This is because the moon was once part of the earth, it's separation leading to the formation of the Pacific Ocean. (This is a theory which some scientists still hold, but of course it would have happened long before the appearance of life on earth.)For the most part the lunarians are ridiculous people whose customs lampoon the fashions and political excesses of Tucker's native land. Some women, for example, dress completely in feathers, while others wear caged butterflies on their heads. The more daring and shapely moon maids wear dresses in which "were inserted glasses like watch crystals, adapted to the form and size of the female bosom." Religious sects eat only the worst part of plants and animals and think it superior to descend stairs by walking backwards.But there is one isolated community in one of the moon's circular valleys (craters) where everything has been designed for the best. Democracy is practiced without demagoguery, trade flourishes without poverty, each man and woman is educated at public expense to his or her full potential, religion has no place in public life, and criminals are reeducated rather than punished. One of the keys to this paradise is that the citizens have calculated exactly how many people their valley can optimally support, and have found the means to keep their population at that level. Atterley wonders how the lunarians can restrain the natural growth in population. The Brahman hints at birth control and says it is already secretly practiced in Asia, but in the United States it "might do more harm than good to be made public, by removing one of the checks of licentiousness, where women are so unrestrained as they are with you."As an adventure story, A Voyage to the Moon lacks suspense. Its satire is amusing at times, but not exceptional in any way. Tucker's utopian society is intriguing, chiefly for its pragmatism, but this is only a small portion of the novel. What I found most appealing about the novel was how astutely the author managed to foresee the future and to view his own world and his own culture as an outsider. The author also comes across as an affable, ingenious, iconoclastic and practical sort of man it would be a delight to know in person. I suspect there is a lot of Tucker's late friend and neighbor Thomas Jefferson in this novel.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A "Utopia" Plot with a very American Cast By Peter G. Markiewicz 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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