Five Weeks in a Balloon - Jules Verne

Category: Adventure, Classic, Sci-Fi
Language: English
Keywords: Classics Literature

Written by Jules Verne
Read by Bryan Godwin
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

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 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.

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