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Written almost a century before the daring flights of the astronauts, Jules Verne's prophetic novel of man's race to the stars is a classic adventure tale enlivened by broad satire and scientific acumen. When the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves lacking... Read Full Overview

De la Tierra a la Luna (t tulo original: De la Terre la Lune Trajet direct en 97 heures) es una novela cient fica y sat rica del escritor Julio Verne.Es un intento de describir por primera vez con minuciosidad cient fica los problemas que hay que resolver para lograr enviar... Read Full Overview

Two of the most famous science fiction stories by Jules Verne in one book.First published in 1865, From the Earth to the Moon is one of the greatest adventures by the French writer, telling the story of the journey to the Moon in a cannon-fired projectile of two Americans and... Read Full Overview

First published in 1865, "From the Earth to the Moon" is Jules Verne's fantastical tale of an ambitious plan to fly to the moon. Set at the end of the American Civil War, Verne's novel is a forward-looking and modern tale of space adventure. With the war over and no other... Read Full Overview

Nearly a century before NASA, a visionary novelist wrote this adventure classic about an international space race. Jules Verne's prophetic fantasy unfolds at the close of the Civil War, as three artillerymen resolve to build a gun big enough to propel a manned rocket to the moon... Read Full Overview

Ariel Juvenil recoge las obras m s importantes e influyentes de la literatura universal en una versi n adaptada con ilustraciones tipo c mic. De la Tierra a la Luna es parte de esta gran colecci n.Mucho antes del inicio de la exploraci n espacial, en la segunda mitad del... Read Full Overview

From the Earth to the Moon (French: De la terre 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... Read Full Overview

La conquista del espacio enchina la piel e invita a so ar. Hace muchos a os, en Baltimore, Estados Unidos, se fund el Gun-Club, donde se reun an inventores de balas y proyectiles. Al finalizar la guerra de secesi n, Barbicane, el presidente de la sociedad, invit a los socios... Read Full Overview

Verne's 1865 tale of a trip to the moon is (as you'd expect from Verne) great fun, even if bits of it now seem, in retrospect, a little strange. Our rocket ship gets shot out of a cannon? To the moon? Goodness But in other ways it's full of eerie bits of... Read Full Overview

De la Tierra a la Luna es una novela cient fica y sat rica del escritor Julio Verne. La obra, que comienza como una s tira del estereotipo estadounidense de la poca, es un intento de describir por primera vez con minuciosidad cient fica los problemas que hay que resolver para... Read Full Overview