From the Earth to the Moon

From the Earth to the Moon

Cover of an early English translation
Author	Jules Verne
Original title	De la terre à la lune
Translator	Anonymous (1867) J. K. Hoyt (1869) Louis Mercier & Eleanor Elizabeth King (1873) Edward Roth (1874) Thomas H. Linklater (1877) I. O. Evans (1959) Lowell Bair (1967) Jacqueline and Robert Baldick (1970) Harold Salemson (1970) Walter James Miller (1996) Frederick Paul Walter (2010)
Illustrator	Émile-Antoine Bayard and Alphonse-Marie de Neuville
Language	French
Series	Voyages Extraordinaires #4 Baltimore Gun Club #1
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Pierre-Jules Hetzel
Publication date	1865
Publication place	France
Published in English	1867
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Preceded by	Journey to the Center of the Earth
Text	From the Earth to the Moon at Wikisource

From the Earth to the Moon: A Direct Route in 97 Hours, 20 Minutes (French: De la Terre à la Lune, trajet direct en 97 heures 20 minutes) 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.