100th anniversary collection edition featuring 80 illustrations from the 1863 edition, by Jules Verne
Five Weeks in a Balloon or Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen is an adventure novel by Jules Verne published in 1863. The book helped Verne perfect his storytelling skills, 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 at the time, with explorers traveling all over the continent in search of its secrets.
