Five Weeks in a Balloon: Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen: Easyread Large Edition
, by Verne, JulesNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781427033734 | 1427033730
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/14/2008
In Jules Verne's Five Weeks in a Balloon or Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen (1869), Dr. Ferguson sets out to discover the unknown areas of Africa with his servant in a hydrogen-filled balloon. A precursor to works like Around the World in Eighty Days, it is to some extent a parody of earlier travel narratives. Harper compared it to Dickens's Pickwick Papers: ''the interest of the book lies in the air of sober reality with which the most impossible events are narrated.''