From the Earth to the Moon Illustrated

By: Verne, Jules

Verne's 1865 tale of a trip to the moon is (as you'd expect from Verne) great fun, even if bits of it now seem, in retrospect, a little strange. Our rocket ship gets shot out of a cannon? To the moon? Goodness But in other ways it's full of eerie bits of business that turned out to be very near reality: he had the cost, when you adjust for inflation, almost exactly right. There are other similarities, too. Verne's cannon was named the Columbiad;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08KBKV8BR
• ISBN13: 9798691543364
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"