From the Earth to the Moon. Around the Moon

Soon after the end of the Civil War, a group of enthusiasts gathers in Baltimore - the "Gun Club," whose leader, Impey Barbicane, intends to create a cannon whose projectile could reach the Moon after being fired. Initially, no crew... was planned for the strange apparatus. However, the bold traveler Michel Ardan made adjustments, and ultimately three people set off into space: Ardan himself, Barbicane, and Captain Nicholl. Will they all return alive from this daring unimaginable flight? And what wonders will the fearless trio see on the Moon? Jules Verne's fantastic duology about the journey of a group of amateur astronauts to the Moon still finds its passionate readers around the world today. Of course, its technical aspects cannot help but evoke a smile now, but strangely, the author succeeded in predicting the location of the spaceport at Cape Canaveral and many details of future space flights.