From the Earth to the Moon

From the Earth to the Moon
Cover of an early English translation
AuthorJules Verne
Original titleDe la terre à la lune
TranslatorAnonymous (1867)
J. K. Hoyt (1869)
Louis Mercier & Eleanor Elizabeth King (1873)
Edward Roth (1874)
Thomas H. Linklater (1877)
I. O. Evans (1959)
Lowell Bair (1967)
Jacqueline and Robert Baldick (1970)
Harold Salemson (1970)
Walter James Miller (1996)
Frederick Paul Walter (2010)
IllustratorÉmile-Antoine Bayard and Alphonse-Marie de Neuville
LanguageFrench
SeriesVoyages Extraordinaires #4
Baltimore Gun Club #1
GenreScience fiction
PublisherPierre-Jules Hetzel
Publication date
1865
Publication placeFrance
Published in English
1867
Media typePrint (Hardback)
Preceded byJourney to the Center of the Earth 
TextFrom the Earth to the Moon at Wikisource

From the Earth to the Moon: A Direct Route in 97 Hours, 20 Minutes (French: De la Terre à la Lune, trajet direct en 97 heures 20 minutes) is an 1865 novel by Jules Verne. It tells the story of the Baltimore Gun Club, a post-American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts, and their attempts to build an enormous Columbiad space gun and launch three people – the Gun Club's president, his Philadelphian armor-making rival, and a French poet – in a projectile with the goal of a Moon landing. Five years later, Verne wrote a sequel called Around the Moon.