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"A retelling of From the earth to the moon in comic book format."@en
"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."@en
"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 classic adventure tale enlivened by broad satire and scientific acumen. When the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves lacking any urgent assignments at the close of the Civil War, their president, Impey Barbicane, proposes that they build a gun big enough to launch a rocket to the moon. But when Barbicane's adversary places a huge wager that the project will fail and a daring volunteer elevates the mission to a "manned" flight, one man's dream turns into an international space race."@en
"Contains Around the World in?Eighty Days and 20000 Leagues Under The Sea. Adventure. Fiction."@en
"Tells of the president of a post-American Civil War gun club in Baltimore, his rival, a Philadelphia maker of armor, and a Frenchman, who build an enormous sky-facing Columbiad space gun and launch themselves in a projectile/spaceship from it to a Moon landing."@en
""Impey Barbicane, president of the Baltimore Gun Club in 1835, suggests the members build a gun big enough to launch a rocket to the moon, but things get out of control when an adversary wagers against the project, and a volunteer lobbies to make the mission a manned flight.""
"When the members of the Baltimore Gun Club find themselves lacking assignments at the close of the Civil War, they try to build a gun big enough to launch a rocket to the moon."
"A retelling of From the Earth to the Moon in comic book format."@en
"This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative collection of classic works."
"After making careful plans, three ingenious and courageous men fly through space towards the moon."
"It is 1865. Impey Barbicane and J.T. Maston are very good with guns and explosives, and want to do something important DS so they decide to build a big gun and use it to go to the Moon. But no-one has gone to the Moon before, and many people, like the great Captain Nicholl, believe that it cannot be done. What will happen when Barbicane and Nicholl meet? And will the men who try to go to the Moon come back alive?"
"One of the earliest science fantasy stories ever written, From the Earth to the Moon follows three wealthy members of a post-Civil War gun club who design and build an enormous columbiad -- and ride a spaceship fired from it all the way to the moon!"@en
"A scientist and members of a gun club decide they will build a spaceship that can reach the moon."
"A scientist and members of a gun club decide they will build a spaceship that can reach the moon."@en

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"Electronic books"@en
"Science fiction"
"Science fiction"@en
"Comic books, strips, etc"
"Comic books, strips, etc"@en
"Graphic novels"@en
"Adventure stories"
"Translations"
"Translations"@en
"Fiction"
"Fiction"@en
"Web sites"@en
"Adventure fiction"
"Adventure fiction"@en
"Juvenile works"
"Science fiction comic books, strips, etc"@en

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"From the earth to the moon = The Baltimore gun club"@en
"From the earth to the Moon"@en
"From the earth to the moon : including the sequel, Round the moon"
"From the Earth to the Moon"@en
"From the Earth to the Moon"
"From the earth to the moon. [1], [From the earth to the moon]"
"From the earth to the moon"
"From the earth to the moon"@en
"From the earth to the moon ; trans. by Jacqueline and Robert Baldick: illus. by W.F. Phillips"@en
"From the earth to the moon, and the trip around it"@en
"From the Earth to the moon"@en

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