From the Earth to the Moon and a Trip Round It

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 b