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A Voyage to the Moon

With Some Account
Of The
Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy,
Of The
People of Morosofia,
And
Other Lunarians.

by George Tucker (Joseph Atterley)

1827

Contents

  1. Atterley's birth and education
    -- He makes a voyage -- Founders off the Burman coast -- Adventures in that Empire -- Meets with a learned Brahmin from Benares
  2. The Brahmin's illness
    -- He reveals an important secret to Atterley -- Curious information concerning the Moon -- The Glonglims -- They plan a voyage to the Moon
  3. The Brahmin and Atterley prepare for their voyage
    -- Description of their traveling machine -- Incidents of the voyage -- The appearance of the earth; Africa; Greece -- The Brahmin's speculations on the different races of men -- National character
  4. Continuation of the voyage
    -- View of Europe: Atlantic Ocean: America -- Speculations on the future destiny of the United States -- Moral reflections -- Pacific Ocean -- Hypothesis on the origin of the Moon
  5. The voyage continued
    -- Second view of Asia -- The Brahmin's speculations concerning India -- Increase of the Moon's attraction -- Appearance of the Moon -- They land on the Moon
  6. Some account of Morosofia, and its chief city, Alamatua
    -- Singular dresses of the Lunar ladies -- Religious self-denial -- Glonglim miser and spendthrift
  7. Physical peculiarities of the Moon
    -- Celestial phenomena -- Farther description of the Lunarians -- National prejudice -- Lightness of bodies -- The Brahmin carries Atterley to sup with a philosopher -- His character and opinions
  8. A celebrated physician; his ingenious theories in physics; his mechanical inventions
    -- The feather-hunting Glonglim
  9. The fortune-telling philosopher, who inspected the finger nails: his visitors
    -- Another philosopher, who judged of the character by the hair -- The fortune-teller duped -- Predatory warfare
  10. The travelers visit a gentleman farmer, who is a great projector: his breed of cattle: his apparatus for cooking
    -- He is taken dangerously ill
  11. Lunarian physicians: their consultation
    -- While they dispute the patient recovers -- The travelers visit the celebrated teacher Lozzi Pozzi
  12. Election of the Numnoonce, or town-constable
    -- Violence of parties -- Singular institution of the Syringe Boys -- The prize-fighters -- Domestic manufactures
  13. Description of the Happy Valley
    -- The laws, customs, and manners of the Okalbians -- Theory of population -- Rent -- System of government
  14. Further account of Okalbia
    -- The Field of Roses -- Curious superstition concerning that flower -- The pleasures of smell traced to association, by a Glonglim philosopher
  15. Atterley goes to the great monthly fair
    -- Its various exhibitions; difficulties -- Preparations to leave the Moon -- Curiosities procured by Atterley -- Regress to the Earth
  16. The Brahmin gives Atterley a history of his life
  17. The Brahmin's story continued
    -- The voyage concluded -- Atterley and the Brahmin separate -- Atterley arrives in New York
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