From the Earth to the Moon & Round the Moon (Andover Classics)

This Andover Classics edition is a freshly edited version of the 1874 book by Scribner, Armstrong & Company, and contains all 80 full-page illustrations, and is printed with easy-to-read 12 point Georgia fonts. In Jules Verne’s prophetic From the Earth to the Moon and its sequel, Round the Moon, the Gun Club, idle after the end of the US Civil War, aim to make a cannon capable of launching a missile to the moon. They then decide to go along for the ride. Verne’s launch of three men in aluminum capsule from Florida and splash down in the Pacific Ocean predates the actual Apollo journeys by nearly exactly one century.