Download or read book Five Weeks in a Balloon ILLUSTRATED written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-25 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, A Journey of Discovery by Three Englishmen in Africa is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1863.
Download or read book Five Weeks in a Balloon written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Five Weeks in a Balloon Illustrated written by Jules Verne (Translator: William Lackland) Jules Verne (Translator: William Lackland) and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1863.
Download or read book Five Weeks in a Balloon Illustrated First Edition written by Jules Verne and published by SeaWolf Press. This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen is an adventure novel by Jules Verne published in 1863.
Download or read book Five Weeks In A Balloon written by Jules Verne and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2014 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Five Weeks In A Balloon" is an adventure novel that describes the journey of three men, Dr. Samuel Ferguson, Dick Kennedy and their servant Joe in a balloon in Africa. On their journey from East to West they face a lot of dangers, as well from natives as from animals and other things.
Download or read book Five Weeks in a Balloon Illustrated written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, A Journey of Discovery by Three Englishmen in Africa (French: Cinq semaines en ballon) 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 story line full of adventure and plot twists that keep the reader's interest through 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.
Download or read book The Twenty One Balloons written by William Pene du Bois and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1986-05-06 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Newbery Medal Winner Professor William Waterman Sherman intends to fly across the Pacific Ocean. But through a twist of fate, he lands on Krakatoa, and discovers a world of unimaginable wealth, eccentric inhabitants, and incredible balloon inventions.Winner of the 1948 Newbery Medal, this classic fantasy-adventure is now available in a handsome new edition. "William Pene du Bois combines his rich imagination, scientific tastes, and brilliant artistry to tell astory that has no age limit."—The Horn Book
Download or read book Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne Illustrated written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was a large audience assembled on the 14th of January, 1862, at the session of the Royal Geographical Society, No. 3 Waterloo Place, London. The president, Sir Francis M -, made an important communication to his colleagues, in an address that was frequently interrupted by applause. This rare specimen of eloquence terminated with the following sonorous phrases bubbling over with patriotism: "England has always marched at the head of nations" (for, the reader will observe, the nations always march at the head of each other), "by the intrepidity of her explorers in the line of geographical discovery." (General assent). "Dr. Samuel Ferguson, one of her most glorious sons, will not reflect discredit on his origin."
Download or read book From The Earth To The Moon written by Jules Verne and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-08-10 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the earliest science fantasy stories ever written, From the Earth to the Moon follows three wealthy members of a post-Civil War gun club who design and build an enormous columbiad -- and ride a spaceship fired from it all the way to the moon!
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Download or read book The Best of Jules Verne written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great adventure stories in this volume take you, literally, as their titles state, around the world, to the center of the earth and through the skies above. These three books created characters and ideas which have stimulated and entertained countless readers since they first appeared. - Jacket cover
Download or read book Five Weeks in a Balloon written by Jules Verne and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-20 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first novel in which Verne perfected the "ingredients" of his later work in the series, 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.
Download or read book Five Weeks in a Balloon written by Jules Verne and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the great “first novels” in world literature is now available in a complete, accurate English translation. Prepared by two of America’s leading Verne scholars, Frederick Paul Walter and Arthur B. Evans, this edition honors not only Verne’s farseeing science, but also his zest, style, and storytelling brilliance. Initially published in 1863, Five Weeks in a Balloon was the first novel in what would become the author’s "Extraordinary Voyages" series. It tells the tale of a 4,000-mile balloon trip over the mysterious continent of Africa, a trip that wouldn’t actually take place until well into the next century. Fusing adventure, comedy, and science fiction, Five Weeks has all the key ingredients of classic Verne: sly humor and cheeky characters, an innovative scientific invention, a tangled plot that’s full of suspense and surprise, and visions of an unknown realm. As part of the Early Classics of Science Fiction series, this critical edition features extensive notes, all the illustrations from the original French edition, and a complete Verne biography and bibliography. Five Weeks in a Balloon will be a prized addition to libraries and science fiction reading lists, and a must-read for Verne fans and steampunk connoisseurs.
Download or read book Five Weeks in a Balloon Translated and Illustrated written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jules Verne has been acknowledged --for 150 years -- as one of the founders of the science fiction story telling genre; but, curiously enough, over a century ago readers knew him as the most popular writer of a kind of literature cataloged under the name of Travel Novel; the purpose of those who cultivated the genre was as much to teach as to entertain. However, Jules Verne went beyond the Travel Novel and became the most accredited representative of the Scientific Novel, which he further developed into the Science Fiction Novel. It would be pointless to ask Jules Verne if he brought science into the context of the novel or simply introduced the novel in the field of science; his enthusiasm led him from one genre to the other, and his creativity, his fertility did the rest. Jules Verne was the first, at least in France, to use the marvelous scientist as main character; an element of his story-telling that especially established his enormous success.After Journey to the Center of the Earth and Journey Around the Word in 80 Days, MS BookS Publishing proudly presents for your reading enjoyment: Five Weeks in a Balloon --a journey of discovery in Africa by three Englishmen; Doctor Ferguson, his friend Kennedy and his valet Joe undertake the crossing of the African continent in a balloon. The reader learns the geography of Africa and the history of its main explorers and follows, along the way, a course of aerostation. Five Weeks in a Balloon launched Jules Verne in 1863 into a famous and well-respected career, writing prescient literature loved worldwide. I have mentioned in previous forewords that I aspire to give verbatim translations of these classic books, because, when I read Jules Verne I want to read Jules Verne's words. However, this book, Verne's first published work, has some rough edges; in the original text were found trying words, commonly used in 19th Century literature, but today ripe with condescension --bigoted words-- that wisdom and the emancipation of the human mind would today find offensive. In the past, the word Negro was too often used to describe African natives, as the word Indian described American natives. Such terms lack universal sensibility and are inaccurate, so I translated using accurate terminology, in no way condescending. What is true of the native people of the American continent such as Inuits, Haudenosaunee, Aztec... is also true of the native people of the African continent with a wide range of culture, language and skin tones in a highly diverse population of Egyptians, Ethiopians, Zambians... I must be honest with the reader and admit that translating this book was somewhat like walking through a minefield of dangerously inappropriate expressions, which at times made me wince. That said, while staying true to Verne's narrative I employed appropriate, accurate words and treated the African natives with all due respect. After all, as Voltaire once wrote: All nations have not always been civilized; all nations were for a long time uncivilized --savage; and in the infinite number of revolutions, which this globe has experienced, the human race has sometimes been thriving, sometimes crumbling. What is now happening to the elephants, the lions, and the tigers, has in the past happened to the human race. At the time when a country was sparsely populated, the habit of feeding on what they had killed made it easy for them to treat their enemies as their deer and wild boars. It was superstition that made humans immolate human victims, but it was necessity that made them eat each other.Enjoy Five Weeks in a Balloon.
Download or read book Five Weeks in a Balloon Jules Verne ILLUSTRATED written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen (French: Cinq semaines en ballon) is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1863. ( Published in English1869) . 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.
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