From the Earth to the Moon (Illustrated 1874 Edition): 100th Anniversary Collection

I love this printed edition that has wonderful binding and cover art; a reprint of the original done in 1875?. The text and font are really easy to read on the paper background. And I love that all of the original iilustrations that were done for the original edition, I think 1876 edition print, are reprinted here.I originally read this story back years ago, when we were still launching men to the moon and I found the telling of this story really interesting. The book I had read was from The Great Illustrated Classics edition and had, what now appears, only some of the original content of illustrations. I would recommend this edition to anybody who wants to read Jules Verne or reread this since fiction classic. Jule Verne imagining how we could go to the Monnin 1865 or later is really clever.

I bought this book for my son, he is a man of few words. He reports: "It's in good shape. I find it engaging." Translation: He really likes the book.

This is a very nice paperback edition of the original printed version, complete with the classic 19th century illustrations from the original edition--and more impressively, also includes the harder-to-find sequel, "Round the Moon," which picks up where "From the Earth to the Moon" left off. I wish I had known that before I ordered the sequel book along with this (not necessary). My only minor criticism would be that it should be made clearer that this book includes BOTH novels. That would have saved me a little money.

Like other releases in this series the cover art is blurry, and I kinda wish the gold parts were reflective; a shiny gold would have looked gorgeous. The text and images are great though, and the sequel 'Around the Moon' is included.

Pretty cool book. Hard to read sometimes because it's 150 years old, but I like the pictures.

Somehow over the years I didn't get around to read many by Jules Verne. I am a fan of Science Fiction and read many modern books. Now I plan to read Mr. Verne. These books by this Press are excellent with so many illustrations in each book.

Bought this as a Christmas gift for my granddaughter in NY. She’s reading it now. She said it’s very interesting and well written and very well made of quality paper.

Amazing book, Jules Verne is an amazing pioneer and ahead of his time with this book.

Seawolf did an amazing job with these Jules Verne editions! Lots of original images as well.

Book arrived in lovely condition - well packaged. Not read it yet as bought 5 together but looking forward to it x

A very good read. I enjoyed reading it. It kept my interest page after page. Interesting. I read 4 Verne's books already in the last month and a half

It's great.But what Jules Verne did not realise was. Those on board the spacecraft. They would had been killed in the explosion. Or burned to death as it rushed through the sky.

Jules Verne again displays an incredible scientific knowledge and his story of launching a missile to the moon (manned, yet!) is truly quite remarkable, considering the time-consuming nature of his research - no Wikipedia or such to ease the way. I have neither the skill nor the inclination to test or question his theorems, but his imagined solutions to such things as G-force on lift-off (a water 'cushion' with collapsible bulkheads, padded walls, etc.), and the production of oxygen, are quite intriguing. He seems to know about atmosphere, or its absence not far above earth's surface, and so I found it strange to have his crew opening scuttles (hatches) for various reasons. His scenario of the capsule being knocked off course and then sling-shotting around the backside of the moon was, to me, a quite amazing example of his thought processes.But with all that comes his apparent abandonment of reason when the capsule plummets back to strike the earth - the Atlantic Ocean to be precise - at (he estimates) some 115-thousand mph! Wow! Not only does it follow down (uncontrolled) the same route of it ascent, but neither it or its human cargo suffers a wit from the blistering fiction-generated heat nor are apparently at all impacted (sorry!) by what would be a catastrophic capsule/ocean collision.It is all fiction, of course, and so I understand and accept his desire - need, really - to keep these chaps alive to tell the tale of their adventure.Although I may sound off put by some of these things, the truth is it's a really great, extremely entertaining story and I give it a strong recommendation.