From the Earth to the Moon (Illustrated 1874 Edition): 100th Anniversary Collection

A beautiful, unabridged version with 80 illustrations and a cover from the 1874 edition. Includes Verne's sequel, A Trip Round It.

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--the Gun Club's president, his Philadelphian armor-making rival, and a French poet--in a projectile with the goal of a moon landing.