Riding the Moon Bats to Saturn
A marvelous volume from a genre of speculative lunar travel around the turn
of the 20th century:
Ville D'Avray, A. de. Voyage dans la lune avant 1900. Paris: Librairie Furne, Jouvet & Cie, 1892.


Starring M. Baboulifiche and his manservant, Papavoine:


They encounter lizards hiding in mussel shells:

A moon cyclops who steals their umbrella:

But then they take a ride on moon bats to Saturn:

where they encounter much more friendly natives:

Before, well . . . being eaten alive by lizards, but that image is a bit too ghastly to post.
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