From the earth to the moon
By: Jules Verne ; trans. by Lowell Bair ; introd. by Gregory Benford
Contributors: Bair, Lowell; Benford, Gregory, 1941-; Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Description: Written almost a century before the daring flights of the astronauts, Jules Verne's prophetic novel of man's race to the stars is a story of rip-roaring action, humor, and wild imagination. With broad satire as well as scientific acumen, From the Earth to the Moon spins a tale set in 1865 about a group of men who decide to build a gun big enough to launch a rocket to the moon.