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01664aam a2200301Ia 4500 001 DFEDCE5E2A3411EB8A858E8549ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20201119010013 008 870714s1976 nyu 000 0 eng d 020 $a 1949460827 020 $a 9781949460827 040 $a KTP $c KTP $d OCL $d IW9 $d SILO 100 1 $a Verne, Jules, $d 1828-1905. 245 10 $a From the earth to the moon : $b including The trip around it / $c Jules Verne. 246 3 $a Trip around it 250 $a Illustrated 1874 edition. 264 1 $a Orinda, CA : $b SeaWolf Press, $c 2019. 300 $a 327 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 500 $a Translations of: De la terre a la lune and Autour de la lune. 520 $a From the Earth to the Moon is an 1865 novel by Jules Verne. This edition combines that novel with his sequel, A Trip Round It. 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 cannon and launch three people{u2014}the Gun Club{u2019}s president, his Philadelphian armor-making rival, and a French poet{u2014}in a projectile with the goal of a moon landing. The book is filled with Verne{u2019}s calculations on the requirements for the cannon and his analysis of what would happen in such a flight. -- Amazon.com 650 0 $a Voyages and travels $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Space flight to the moon $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Voyages, Imaginary $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Science fiction. 651 0 $a Moon $v Fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722012119.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DFEDCE5E2A3411EB8A858E8549ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search