This is book is a translation from French of the original title De la Terre à la Lune (1865).
The following English translations are known:
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1869 | From the Earth to the Moon: Passage Direct in 97 Hours and 20 Minutes | Translated by J. K. Hoyt This translation begins: "During the civil war in the United States a new and very influential club was established in the city of Baltimore. We know with what energy the military instinct develops itself among a people composed of shippers, merchants and mechanics." - per jv.gilead.org.il and Jules Verne Encyclopedia. This translation was originally serialized in Newark Daily and Weekly Journal of New Jersey starting June 10th and running for two months. |
| 1873 | From the Earth to the Moon | Translated by Louis Mercier and Eleanor E. King
This translation begins:
(Chapter I. The Gun Club.)
"[During the Federal War in the United States] [During the War of the Rebellion] [During the American war of 1861], a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the state of Maryland. It is well known with what energy the taste for military matters became developed amongst that nation of shipowners, shopkeepers, and mechanics."
This translation was published in The St. James' Magazine and United Empire Review, April to October 1873, beginning under this title on page 67 (Vol. 32, or new series v11, viewed at HathiTrust). The 7 instalments contain numerous illustrations as full-page plates not included in the pagination. HathiTrust Digital Library copies of Vols. 32-33 (n.s. 11-12) contain no title page or index. Following blank pages, the first image in each volume as assembled at HDL is an illustration of From the Earth to the Moon, facing page 1, apparently as frontispieces of the April and October issues. |
| 1874 | The Baltimore Gun Club | Translated by Edward Roth This translation begins: "It was during the great Civil War of the United States, that a new and influential club started in Baltimore, Maryland. Every body knows the astonishing energy with which the military instinct suddenly developed itself in that shipbuilding, engineering, and commercial nation." |
| 1874 | The American Gun Club | Translated by Louis Mercier and Eleanor E. King |
| 1876 | From the Earth to the Moon Direct in 97 Hours 20 Minutes | Translated by Louis Mercier and Eleanor E. King. This translation begins: "During the Federal War in the United States, a new and very influential club was established in the city of Baltimore, Maryland. It is well known with what energy the military instinct was developed amongst that nation of shipowners, shopkeepers, and mechanics." |
| 1877 | From the Earth to the Moon Direct | Translated by T. H. Linklater This translation begins: "During the American War of Secession a new and very influential club was formed in the city of Baltimore, Maryland. We all know with what rapidity the military instinct developed itself in this people of shipowners, merchants, and mechanics." |
| 1877 | From the Earth to the Moon | Translated by an unknown hand. This translation begins: "During the Federal War in the United States, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore, Maryland. It is well known with what energy the military instinct was developed amongst that nation of shipowners, shopkeepers, and mechanics." |
| 1911 | A Trip from Earth to the Moon | Translated by Louis Mercier and Eleanor E. King This translation begins: "During the American war of 1861, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the state of Maryland. It is well known with what energy the taste for military matters became developed amongst that nation of shipowners, shopkeepers, and mechanics." |
| 1930 | From Earth to Moon | Translated by P. F. R. Bashford |
| 1931 | From the Earth to the Moon | Translated by multiple undetermined hands. |
| 1949 | From the Earth to the Moon | Translated by Louis Mercier and Eleanor King and revised by Carter Hull. |
| 1959 | From the Earth to the Moon | Translated by Louis Mercier and Eleanor E. King edited and abridged by I. O. Evans. This translations begins: "During the Federal War in the United States, a new and influential club was founded in the city of Baltimore, Maryland. It is common knowledge how rapidly the taste for military matters grew amongst that nation of ship-owners, shopkeepers, and mechanics." |
| 1960 | From the Earth to the Moon | Edward Roth. This translation begins: "It was during the great Civil War of the United States, that a new and influential club started in Baltimore, Maryland. Every body knows the astonishing energy with which the military instinct suddenly developed itself in that shipbuilding, engineering, and commercial nation." |
| 1967 | From the Earth to the Moon | Translated by Lowell Bair, sometimes mistakenly given as Blair. This translation begins: "During the Civil War in the United States an influential club was formed in Baltimore. The vigor with which the military instinct developed in that nation of shipowners, merchants, and mechanics is well known." |
| 1970 | From the Earth to the Moon | Translated by Jacqueline Baldick and Robert Baldick. This translation begins: "During the Civil War in the United States an influential club was founded in the city of Baltimore, Maryland. It is well known how rapidly the military instinct developed in that nation of shipowners, merchants, and mechanics." |
| 1970 | From the Earth to the Moon | Translated by Harold Salemson This translation begins: "During the American Civil War, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the state of Maryland. It is well known with what energy the taste for military matters became developed among that nation of ship-owners, shopkeepers, and mechanics." |
| 1978 | The Annotated Jules Verne: From the Earth to the Moon: Direct in Ninety-Seven Hours and Twenty Minutes | Translated by an unknown hand |
| 2010 | From the Earth to the Moon | Translated by Frederick Paul Walter |
| 2011 | From the Earth to the Moon | Translated by T. H. Linklater Translator is not credited in the 2011 editions, but the translation is identical to From the Earth to the Moon Direct |
In addition to its stand-alone volume, this title was published in the follow books. It can be rated independently of any volumes containing it.
