Five Weeks in a Balloon: Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen

Overview

A beautiful and unique tale by Jules Verne. A scholar, Samuel Ferguson, along with his friend and servant plans out to travel across the African continent in a hydrogen balloon. The book describes their struggle of exploring the unknown regions of Africa which were still not familiar to Europeans. Filled with unintentional moments, this is an audacious work.

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Bio of Jules Verne

Jules Verne, born at Nantes, France, in 1828, of legal and seafaring stock, was the author of innumerable adventure stories that combined a vivid imagination with a gift for popularizing science. Although he studied law at Paris, he devoted his life entirely to writing. His most popular stories, besides 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1870), include: Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863), Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), A Trip to the Moon (1865), Around the World in Eighty Days (1872), and Michael Strogoff (1876). In addition, he was the author of a number of successful plays, as well as a popular history of exploration from Phoenician times to the mid-nineteenth century, The Discovery of the Earth (1878-80). After a long and active career in literature, Jules Verne died at Amiens, France, in 1905.

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Imprint

ReadHowYouWant

Filesize

1.52 MB

Number of Pages

290

eBook ISBN

9781442944824