Jules Verne

Five Weeks in a Balloon (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"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

Produktdetails

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

Autorenporträt

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.

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