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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

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

This edition contains the English translation and the original text in French. "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 aficionados,... 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

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

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

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

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

How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next

Join the Baltimore Gun Club as it embarks on the most ambitious endeavor in all of human history -- the construction of a cannon capable of delivering a projectile containing... Read Full Overview