Jules Verne - 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 sky-facing 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.