From the Earth to the Moon - Hardcover

Verne, Jules

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1592242421 ISBN 13: 9781592242429

Publisher: Wildside Press, 2005

Synopsis

Jules Verne's classic tale of the first trip from the Earth to the Moon.

About this title

From the Publisher:

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 any urgent assignments at the close of the Civil War, their president, Impey Barbicane, proposes that they build a gun big enough to launch a rocket to the moon. But when Barbicane's adversary places a huge wager that the project will fail and a daring volunteer elevates the mission to a "manned" flight, one man's dream turns into an international space race.

About the Author:

Jules Verne was a French writer and pioneer of the science fiction genre through novels like Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in Eighty Days, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, and The Mysterious Island. A visionary, Verne wrote about air, space, and underwater travel long before the ability to travel in these realms was invented, and his works remain amongst the most translated, most continually reprinted, and most widely read books of all time. Jules Verne died in 1905 having paved the way for future science fiction writers and enthusiasts.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1592242421
• ISBN 13: 9781592242429
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 156