From the Earth to the Moon -- Jules Verne

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. <p/>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. <p/>A story of rip-roaring action, humor, and wild imagination, <b>From the Earth to the Moon</b> is as uncanny in its accuracy and as filled with authentic detail and startling immediacy as Verne's timeless masterpieces <b>20,000 Leagues Under the Sea </b>and <b>Around the World in Eighty Days. </b><i> <p/></i><br><br><b>Author:</b> Jules Verne<br><b>Publisher:</b> Bantam Classics<br><b>Published:</b> 05/01/1993<br><b>Pages:</b> 240<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.26lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 6.91h x 4.29w x 0.53d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780553214208<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Jules Verne was born into a family with seafaring tradition in Nantes, France, in 1828. At an early age he tried to run off and ship out as a cabin boy but was stopped and returned to his family. Verne was sent to Paris to study law, but once there, he quic