Five Weeks in a Balloon; Or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    Five Weeks in a Balloon; Or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen
                                            
                            By Jules Verne
                            
                                18 Oct, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1863. It is the first novel in which he perfected the "ingredients" of his later work, skillfully mixing a plot fu
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                                                Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1863. It is the first 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. Less