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What if a club of gunmen turns its greatest cannon toward the Moon—with living passengers inside the shell?
In Jules Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon, the Baltimore Gun Club needs a purpose after the American Civil War. Its practical president, Impey Barbicane, proposes a Moon shot. Captain Nicholl bets against him, while bold French adventurer Michel Ardan asks to ride inside the shell. An enormous engineering project becomes a gamble with human lives.
Round the Moon follows the three travelers inside their cramped shell, where calculations meet the uncertainty of space. Together, these novels mix adventure with the science of Verne’s day, from cannon measurements to the speed needed to escape Earth. Humor runs through the grand plan, as pride, money and rivalry help drive an extraordinary shared effort.
What you’ll discover
- A cannon aimed skyward Follow an audacious idea from a crowded meeting hall to a vast gun in Florida.
- Three sharply different companions Meet practical Barbicane, skeptical Nicholl and talkative Ardan as their clashing temperaments share close quarters.
- Science with a purpose Explore the figures behind the voyage, where every weight, distance and speed matters.
- Humor beneath the ambition Enjoy Verne’s gentle mockery of national pride, eager crowds and the urge to compete.
- A world working together See how workers, astronomers and contributions from across the world turn a proposal into action.
Who will love it
You will love this if you enjoy bold adventure, comic friendships, and clever people solving practical problems. It suits readers curious about space, early science fiction, and engineering.
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- Idle artillerymen find a new target
- Astronomers and engineers turn the dream into a design
- A rival bets, two states quarrel, the world pays
- The giant gun rises from Stones Hill
- A Frenchman arrives and old enemies become partners
- The launch and the first days in space
- The shell drifts past the Moon and shows its secrets
- Measuring and dreaming need each other
- Energy once spent on war now reaches for the sky
- A lively voice, exact numbers, and two linked books
Who’s who
- Impey BarbicaneThe calm, exact president of the Gun Club, who proposes the Moon shot and wants to prove it can be done.
- Captain NichollAn armor maker from Philadelphia, Barbicane's rival, who bets against the plan and loves exact calculation.
- Michel ArdanA talkative Frenchman who asks to ride inside the shell and meets every danger with a joke.
- J. T. MastonThe loyal secretary of the Gun Club, with a steel hook and a gutta-percha skull, who longs to join the voyage.
- MurchisonThe engineer who builds the gun at Stones Hill and fires it at the appointed second.
- DianaThe travelers' dog, who is meant to found a line of lunar dogs and keeps Ardan company.
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De la Tierra a la Luna; y alrededor de la Luna
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A club of veterans in Baltimore plans to fire a shell at the Moon, and a Frenchman insists on riding inside.
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What makes a hall full of old soldiers, many of them missing arms and legs, cheer for the Moon? In Baltimore, just after the Civil War, the Gun Club has no wars left to fight.
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Idle artillerymen find a new target
In Baltimore, a club of gunmakers is proud of its enormous cannons. Members judge one another by the weight of their guns and the distance their shells fly.
Then the war ends, and peace is a disaster for them. The clubrooms fill with dust. Tom Hunter burns his wooden legs in the fireplace while he grumbles, and the secretary, J. T. Maston, threatens to bury himself in the prairies if he cannot test his new mortar.
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Verne, Jules. From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/from-the-earth-to-the-moon-and-round-the-moon.
Verne, J. (2026). From the Earth to the Moon; and, round the Moon. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/from-the-earth-to-the-moon-and-round-the-moon
Verne, Jules. From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/from-the-earth-to-the-moon-and-round-the-moon.
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What is From the Earth to the Moon about?
It tells how the Baltimore Gun Club, led by Impey Barbicane, plans and builds a giant cannon to fire a shell at the Moon, and how a Frenchman named Michel Ardan joins the crew.
Who are Barbicane, Nicholl and Michel Ardan?
Barbicane is the calm president of the Gun Club, Nicholl is his rival who makes armor plates, and Ardan is a talkative Frenchman. After a near duel, all three agree to ride in the shell together.
What is the Columbiad?
The Columbiad is the giant cannon the club builds in Florida. It is nine hundred feet long, sunk into the ground at Stones Hill, and loaded with guncotton to launch the shell toward the Moon.
The author
Jules Verne
1828–1905 · French adventure novelist
Jules Verne was a French writer born in Nantes in 1828. He lived in Paris and later in Amiens, where he died in 1905. His novels include Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).
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