Five Weeks in a Balloon - Jules Verne
Public domain
Category: Sci-Fi
Narrator: Bryan Godwin
Tags: Sci-Fi, Adventure, Classic
Five Weeks in a Balloon By: Jules Verne Narrated by: Bryan Godwin Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins Unabridged Audiobook Release date: 10-01-2022 Language: English Publisher: Bookstream Audiobooks, 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 readers 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 Hetzels publishing house
