From the Earth to the Moon

by Jules Verne

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.