From the Earth to the Moon and a Trip Round It (illustrated) From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon Jules Verne, Boris Kosulnikov

From the Earth to the Moon 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. The book contains original illustrations of the famous book graphic artist Boris Kosulnikov.