Verne was sent to Paris to study law, but once there, he quickly fell in love with the theater. At an early age he tried to run off and ship out as a cabin boy but was stopped and returned to his family. About the Author Jules Verne was born into a family with seafaring tradition in Nantes, France, in 1828. A story of rip-roaring action, humor, and wild imagination, From the Earth to the Moon is as uncanny in its accuracy and as filled with authentic detail and startling immediacy as Vernes timeless masterpieces 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days. But when Barbicanes adversary places a huge wager that the project will fail and a daring volunteer elevates the mission to a manned flight, one mans dream turns into an international space race.

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. Book Synopsis Written almost a century before the daring flights of the astronauts, Jules Vernes prophetic novel of mans race to the stars is a classic adventure tale enlivened by broad satire and scientific acumen. With broad satire as well as scientific acumen, From the Earth to the Moon spins a tale set in 1865 about a group of men who decide to build a gun big enough to launch a rocket to the moon. About the Book Written almost a century before the daring flights of the astronauts, Jules Vernes prophetic novel of mans race to the stars is a story of rip-roaring action, humor, and wild imagination.

From the earth to the moon 1865