From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon

From the Earth to the Moon (French: De la terre à la lune) is an 1865 novel by Jules Verne. It tells the story of the Baltimore Gun Club, a post-American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts, and their attempts to build an enormous Columbiad space gun and launch three people—the Gun Club''s president, his Philadelphian armor-making rival, and a French poet—in a projectile with the goal of a Mo...