# From the Earth to the Moon

> Jules Verne's visionary adventure of the space age before it began. A club of American gun enthusiasts resolves to fire a manned projectile at the Moon, and calculates its way toward the impossible.

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## About
With the guns of war fallen silent, a society of restless artillery enthusiasts hunts for a grander target than any battlefield ever offered, and settles on nothing less than the Moon itself.What it's aboutThe Baltimore Gun Club, its members bored by peace, hatches a scheme to build a colossal cannon and fire a projectile all the way to the Moon. Jules Verne follows the project through its funding, its furious debates, the casting of the great gun in Florida, and the arrival of a daring Frenchman who proposes that the shell carry passengers. With characteristic relish for detail, Verne walks through the physics, the engineering and the sheer audacity of the enterprise, right up to the moment of launch.ThemesThe novel celebrates human ingenuity and the hunger to reach beyond known limits, while gently satirising national pride, the culture of gunnery, and the boundless confidence of the industrial age. Verne blends real science with speculation so seamlessly that wonder and calculation become one.Why it still mattersVerne imagined a Florida launch site, an aluminium capsule and a crew of three roughly a century before Apollo made such things real, and the eerie accuracy of his guesses has fascinated readers ever since. As a foundational work of science fiction, it shows the genre's power to dream the future into being.Who it's forReaders who love classic adventure, the history of space flight, or the roots of science fiction. Ideal for anyone curious how the nineteenth century imagined the journey we would one day actually make.

## Specifications
- author: Jules Verne
- publisher: DotBooks
- language: en
- binding: Perfect Bound
- pages: 458
- format: paperback