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although several entail steep ascents and difficult terrain and a few include scrambling and exposure

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The First Men in the Moon (SF Masterworks) Children's Fantasy & Magic proud and in your faceThanks to the discovery of an anti gravity metal, Cavorite, two Victorian Englishman decide to tackle the most prestigious goal space travel. They construct a sphere that will ultimately take them to the moon. On landing, they encounter what seems like an utterly barren landscape but they soon find signs that the planet was once very much alive. Then they hear curious hammering sounds from beneath the surface, and come face to face with the Selenites,