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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Seawolf Press
Published: Apr 2020
Genre: Fiction - Action & Adventure
Pages: 296
A nice edtiion with 80 illustrations from the first edition. Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen is an adventure novel by Jules Verne published in 1863. The book helped Verne perfect his story telling skills, 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.