&quot;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.
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It is the first Verne novel in which he perfected the «ingredients» of his later work, skillfully mixing a plot full of adventure and twists that hold the reader&apos;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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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&apos;s publishing house, which put out several dozen more works of his for over forty years afterward.

литературоведение

Five Weeks in a Balloon

The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras

Robur the Conqueror (Unabridged)

Round the World in Eighty Days (Unabridged)

Robur the Conqueror

The Mysterious Island

A Journey to the Centre of the Earth

In Search of the Castaways; or Captain Grant's Children

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea