"A classic piece of French speculative fiction" from the author of Around the World in Eighty Days and Journey to the Center of the Earth (Los Angeles Review of Books). The first book of Jules Verne's Extraordinary Voyages series, Five Weeks in a Balloon follows the adventures of English inventor Samuel Fergusson and the passengers on his magnificent hot air balloon: his dutiful assistant, Joe, and Scottish hunter Dick Kennedy. Hoping to explore lands yet undiscovered by others, they embark on a four-thousand-mile journey over Africa, from Zanzibar to Senegal. "The sheer pace of the action keeps the reader travelling along with the balloon. . . . A rollicking adventure novel suffused with the spirit of the age of reason. A definite must-read for anyone who is either interested in the birth of science fiction, or those who enjoy tales of the dark heart of pre-colonial Africa a [sic] la Rider Haggard." -Snake Oil Review "Both a travelogue and a picaresque series of adventures. . . . Verne writes geek fiction-filled, in this case, with details of a technical contraption and of a body of knowledge in which the reader is also caught up, by means of the fiction." -Strange Horizons "Verne's first great commercial success, was one of his most enduringly popular novels . . . [An] entertaining, historically important, and complex breakthrough novel." -Los Angeles Review of Books

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Verlag: Open Road Media
Seitenzahl: 148
Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2020
Englisch
ISBN-13: 9781504062138
Artikelnr.: 59074705

Produktdetails

Verlag: Open Road Media
Seitenzahl: 148
Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2020
Englisch
ISBN-13: 9781504062138
Artikelnr.: 59074705

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Jules Verne (1828-1905) was a French author best known for his tales of adventure, including Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and Around the World in Eighty Days. A true visionary, Verne foresaw the skyscraper, the submarine, and the airplane, among many other inventions, and is now regarded as one of the fathers of science fiction.

Five Weeks in a Balloon (eBook, ePUB)

Five Weeks in a Balloon (eBook, ePUB)

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