Format:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 323 pages, 80 unnumbered leaves of plates)
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illustrations
Series Statement:
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Uniform Title:
De la terre à la lune
Content:
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
Note:
Illustrations engraved by Pannemaker and Hildibrand
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Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida
Language:
English
URL:
http://find.galegroup.com/openurl/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&url_ctx_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&res_id=info:sid/gale:NCCO&ctx_enc=info:ofi:enc:UTF-8&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:unknown&rft.artnum=CIBEJS853972723&req_dat=info:sid/gale:ugnid:sbbpk
Author information:
Pannemaker, Adolphe François 1822-
Author information:
Verne, Jules 1828-1905
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