Translations of: De la terre a la lune and Autour de la lune.
Summary:
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
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