Five Weeks in a Balloon
Original title: Cinq semaines en ballon
earliest edition we have, 1969 1st World Library - Literary Society, 2006 paperback 432 pages
The debut novel from Jules Verne, originally published in 1869. This is the work that established his reputation. Originally planned for a children's magazine, this story about traveling in balloons across Africa resonates in Verne's later works and contains all his fondly remembered themes.
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