From the Earth to the Moon

by Jules Verne

Contents: From the Earth to the Moon

[CHAPTER I. The Gun Club]
[CHAPTER II. President Barbicane’s Communication]
[CHAPTER III. Effect of the President’s Communication]
[CHAPTER IV. Reply From the Observatory of Cambridge]
[CHAPTER V. The Romance of the Moon]
[CHAPTER VI. The Permissive Limits of Ignorance and Belief in the United States]
[CHAPTER VII. The Hymn of the Cannon-Ball]
[CHAPTER VIII. History of the Cannon]
[CHAPTER IX. The Question of the Powders]
[CHAPTER X. One Enemy v. Twenty-Five Millions of Friends]
[CHAPTER XI. Florida and Texas]
[CHAPTER XII. Urbi et Orbi]
[CHAPTER XIII. Stones Hill]
[CHAPTER XIV. Pickaxe and Trowel]
[CHAPTER XV. The Fete of the Casting]
[CHAPTER XVI. The Columbiad]
[CHAPTER XVII. A Telegraphic Dispatch]
[CHAPTER XVIII. The Passenger of the Atlanta]
[CHAPTER XIX. A Monster Meeting]
[CHAPTER XX. Attack and Riposte]
[CHAPTER XXI. How A Frenchman Manages An Affair]
[CHAPTER XXII. The New Citizen of the United States]
[CHAPTER XXIII. The Projectile-Vehicle]
[CHAPTER XXIV. The Telescope of the Rocky Mountains]
[CHAPTER XXV. Final Details]
[CHAPTER XXVI. Fire!]
[CHAPTER XXVII. Foul Weather]
[CHAPTER XXVIII. A New Star]

Contents: Round the Moon

[PRELIMINARY CHAPTER—Recapitulating the First Part of
This Work, and Serving as a Preface to the Second]
[CHAPTER I. From Twenty Minutes Past Ten to Forty-Seven Minutes Past Ten P. M.]
[CHAPTER II. The First Half Hour]
[CHAPTER III. Their Place of Shelter]
[CHAPTER IV. A Little Algebra]
[CHAPTER V. The Cold of Space]
[CHAPTER VI. Question and Answer]
[CHAPTER VII. A Moment of Intoxication]
[CHAPTER VIII.At Seventy-Eight Thousand Five Hundred and Fourteen Leagues]
[CHAPTER IX. The Consequences of A Deviation]
[CHAPTER X. The Observers of the Moon]
[CHAPTER XI. Fancy and Reality]
[CHAPTER XII. Orographic Details]
[CHAPTER XIII. Lunar Landscapes]
[CHAPTER XIV. The Night of Three Hundred and Fifty-Four Hours and A Half]
[CHAPTER XV. Hyperbola or Parabola]
[CHAPTER XVI. The Southern Hemisphere]
[CHAPTER XVII. Tycho]
[CHAPTER XVIII. Grave Questions]
[CHAPTER XIX. A Struggle Against the Impossible]
[CHAPTER XX. The Soundings of the Susquehanna]
[CHAPTER XXI. J. T. Maston Recalled]
[CHAPTER XXII. Recovered From the Sea]
[CHAPTER XXIII. The End]

FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON

CHAPTER I.
THE GUN CLUB

During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland. It is well known with what energy the taste for military matters became developed among that nation of ship-owners, shopkeepers, and mechanics. Simple tradesmen jumped their counters to become extemporized captains, colonels, and generals, without having ever passed the School of Instruction at West Point; nevertheless; they quickly rivaled their compeers of the old continent, and, like them, carried off victories by dint of lavish expenditure in ammunition, money, and men.