Five Weeks in a Balloon

Five Weeks in a Balloon

1863 • 432 pages

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Five Weeks in a Balloon is an adventure novel by Jules Verne. It is the first Verne novel in which he perfected the "ingredients" of his later work, skillfully mixing a plot full of adventure and twists that hold the reader's interest with passages of technical, geographic, and historic description. The book gives readers a glimpse of the exploration of Africa, which was still not completely known to Europeans of the time, with explorers traveling all over the continent in search of its secrets.


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Delightful book but the new English translation is sometimes jarring, mixing 1900's language with 20th century slang.

August 1, 2020