From the Earth to the Moon is an 1865 novel by Jules Verne. It tells the story of the Baltimore Gun Club, a post-American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts, and their attempts to build an enormous Columbiad space gun and launch three people.the Gun Club's president, his Philadelphian armor-making rival, and a French poet.in a projectile with the goal of a Moon landing. Five years later, Verne wrote a sequel called Around the Moon.The book contains original illustrations of the famous book graphic artist Boris Kosulnikov.