The Gun Club of Baltimore is surely the most famous Gun Club in the world for did not this madly ambitious group launch a capsule from the Earthssurface up thr... » 

The Gun Club of Baltimore is surely the most famous Gun Club in the world for did not this madly ambitious group launch a capsule from the Earthssurface up through the atmosphere and then beyond toward the Moon? NowBarbicane and Nicholls famous club is engaged in an absurdly massive projectonce again a project of literally Earthshaking proportions. Barbicane haspurchased the northern polar ice cap for its thick veins of coal. And theplan is no less than to tip the Earth on its axis to bring a temperate climatearound the globe . . . and enable the mining of those valuable depositsWritten two decades after From the Earth to the Moon Jules Vernesvisionary novel Sans Dessus Dessous known in English as TopsyTurvy orThe Purchase of the North Pole saw first publication in 1889. «