 Cover of an early English translation | |
| Author | Jules Verne |
|---|---|
| Original title | De la terre à la lune |
| Translator | Anonymous (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) |
| Illustrator | Émile-Antoine Bayard and Alphonse-Marie de Neuville |
| Language | French |
| Series | Voyages Extraordinaires #4 Baltimore Gun Club #1 |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Pierre-Jules Hetzel |
Publication date | 1865 |
| Publication place | France |
Published in English | 1867 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Preceded by | Journey to the Center of the Earth |
| Text | From 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.