Download or read book The Jules Verne Steam Balloon written by Guy Davenport and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Five Weeks In a Balloon written by Jules Verne and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-01-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Jules Verne's novel both acting as a travelogue of a fantastic balloon trip across Africa, but also it is a skewering of other such books of the day that glamorized such dangerous travel. Often, wealthy and somewhat naive travelers lost their lives when faced with the realities of "a simple little trip through Africa."Verne's voyagers set out in a balloon powered by water that is somehow turned into hydrogen to fill the gas bag. It also allows them to turn it into a hot air balloon at one point to make an escape.The voyagers face both blasé as well as dangerous natives, needlessly kill animals and see many incredible sights.If read as the satire Verne supposedly meant it to be, this is an amusing look at what little brains and loads of money can do for you. If looked at as being a serious work, it is an intriguing study of crossing the "belt" region of the entire African continent.
Download or read book Five Weeks in a Balloon written by Jules Verne and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Five Weeks in a Balloon" (Or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen) by Jules Verne. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne Early Classics of Science Fiction written by Jules Verne and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-02 with total page 162 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. 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. Public interest in fanciful tales of African exploration was at its height, and the book was an instant hit; it made Verne financially independent and got him a contract with Jules Hetzel's publishing house, which put out several dozen more works of his for over forty years afterward.
Download or read book A Voyage in a Balloon 1852 written by Jules Verne and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Voyage in a Balloon (1852)" by Jules Verne. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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Download or read book Five Weeks in a Balloon Jules Verne written by Jules Verne and published by Lumbreras Classics Books. This book was released on 2021-06-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1882, Dr. Samuel Ferguson, his friend Dick Kennedy and his servant Joe, embarked on an unprecedented journey in Zanzibar: they were going to fly over Africa in a balloon to try a real geographical adventure in the heart of Africa, a then unknown continent. object of all the myths, beliefs and superstitions that will reinforce the tragic dimension of the flight if it does not take place in the right conditions. Without losing the sense of humor, very English, the three adventurers drag us in this intense aerial drama, which constitutes the first of their Extraordinary Journeys. In this series, Jules Verne tries to disseminate in a playful and fun way the latest advances in science and technology, along with a good base of geography and history and large doses of imagination and fantasy, which will give the trips described in his novels their extraordinary character.
Download or read book A Voyage in a Balloon 1852 written by Jules Verne and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Voyage in a Balloon (1852)" by Jules Verne. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
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 2017-11-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first Verne novel in which he perfected the "ingredients" of his later work, skilfully 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 travelling all over the continent in search of its secrets. Public interest in fanciful tales of African exploration was at its height, and the book was an instant hit; it made Verne financially independent and got him a contract with Jules Hetzel's publishing house, which put out several dozen more works of his for over forty years afterwards. Jules Gabriel Verne was a French author who helped pioneer the science-fiction genre. He is best known for novels such as A Journey to the Centre of the Earth and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Verne is often referred to as the "Father of science fiction" as he wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before navigable aircraft and practical submarines were invented, and before any means of space travel had been devised. In 1857 he met Pierre-Jules Hetzel, one of the most important French publishers of the 19th century. Hetzel's advice improved Verne's writings, which until then had been rejected by other publishers. Hetzel read a draft of Verne's story about the balloon exploration of Africa, which had previously been rejected on the grounds that it was "too scientific." With Hetzel's help, he rewrote the story and in 1863 it was published in book form as Five Weeks in a Balloon (Cinq semaines en ballon). Acting on Hetzel's advice, Verne added comical accents to his novels, changed sad endings into happy ones, and toned down various political messages. From that point on, and for nearly a quarter of a century, scarcely a year passed in which Hetzel did not publish one or more of his stories. In 1888, he entered politics and was elected town councillor of Amiens where he championed several improvements and served for 15 years. In 1905, while ill with diabetes, Verne died at his home.
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Download or read book Guy Davenport written by Andre Furlani and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-20 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guy Davenport (1927–2005), an American writer of fiction, poetry, criticism, and essays, a translator, painter, intellectual, and teacher, brought a breadth and depth of knowledge to his pursuits that few other writers could approach, let alone appraise. In Andre Furlani, this twentieth-century American master has finally found an apt critical reader. In this first sustained critical study of Davenport, Furlani elucidates the depths of Davenport's fiction and its poetic precedents, brings a rare understanding to the author's reworking of twentieth-century literature and intellectual history, and offers unusual insight into his compositional technique. Furlani explores key themes across the spectrum of Davenport's fiction: pastoral utopia; twentieth-century dystopia; sexual ethics; the mythologizing of childhood; the inseparability of the archaic and the modern; and a celebration of the union of sophia, eros, and poesia. Whether Davenport's view of art and the cosmos should be called "postmodern" is a question that Furlani considers closely--offering, finally, a new aesthetic for this American original who, in these pages, at last receives the thorough and meticulous attention he has long merited.
Download or read book Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 144 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. 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.Public interest in fanciful tales of African exploration was at its height, and the book was an instant hit; it made Verne financially independent and got him a contract with Jules Hetzel's publishing house, which put out several dozen more works of his for over forty years afterward.
Download or read book A Voyage in a Balloon written by Jules Verne and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-12 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amalgamating futuristic technologies and expeditions into the future, this is a scintillating collection by Verne. This short work combines sights of the future as well as bird's eye view of the contemporary era. Just as the narrator starts the ascent of his balloon, a stranger jumps into its car. The unexpected passenger's only intent is to take the balloon as high as it will go, even at the cost of his and pilot's life. The intruder takes advantage of the long journey to recount the history of incidents related to the epic of lighter-than-air travel. This short story foreshadows Verne's first novel, Five Weeks in a Balloon.
Download or read book FIVE WEEKS IN A BALLOON written by JULES VERNE and published by PURE SNOW PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FIVE WEEKS IN A BALLOON BY JULES VERNE KEY FEATURES OF THIS BOOK Unabridged original content Available in multiple formats: eBook, original paperback, large print paperback, hardcover and audiobook Proper paragraph formatting with Indented first lines and Justified Paragraphs Properly formatted for aesthetics and ease of reading. Custom Table of Contents and Design elements for each chapter The Copyright page has been placed at the end of the book, as to not impede the content and flow of the book. ABOUT THE BOOK: Original publication: 1863 Book 1 A scholar and explorer, Dr. Samuel Fergusson, accompanied by his manservant Joe and his friend professional hunter Richard "Dick" Kennedy, sets out to travel across the African continent — still not fully explored — with the help of a balloon filled with hydrogen. The trip begins in Zanzibar on the east coast, and passes across Lake Victoria, Lake Chad, Agadez, Timbuktu, Djenné and Ségou to St Louis in modern-day Senegal on the west coast. The book describes the unknown interior of Africa near modern-day Central African Republic as a desert, when it is actually savanna. A good deal of the initial exploration is to focus on the finding of the source of the Nile. The second leg is to link up the other explorers. There are numerous scenes of adventure, composed of either a conflict with a native or a conflict with the environment, including Rescuing a missionary from tribal sacrifice, running out of water while stranded without a wind over the Sahara, an attack on the balloon by bearded vultures, rescuing Joe later, and narrowly escaping the remnants of a militant army as the balloon dwindles to nothingness with the loss of hydrogen. Chapters 44 Words: 91,000 This book is great for schools, teachers and students or for the casual reader, and makes a wonderful addition to any classic literary library ABOUT US: At Pure Snow Publishing we have taken the time and care into formatting this book to make it the best possible reading experience. With more than 500 book listings, we specialize in publishing classic books and have been publishing books since 2014. Enjoy!
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Download or read book Five Weeks In A Balloon By Jules Verne Annotated written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in the the_Extraordinary Voyages Series. Much more down to earth-figuratively, if not literally, than his later works, his heroes here encounter no lost civilizations, no anachronistic dinosaurs, and no extraordinary perils beyond that which actual explorers of the era might have met on a balloon voyage across the Dark Continent.
Download or read book A Reader s Book of Days True Tales from the Lives and Works of Writers for Every Day of the Year written by Tom Nissley and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book connoisseur Tom Nissley has combed literary history to capture the stories that make writers' lives perennially fascinating: their epiphanies, embarrassments and achievements. Each handsome page in A Reader's Book of Days is devoted to a day of the year, featuring original accounts of events in the lives of great writers, and fictional events that took place within beloved books.
