In Jules Verne's Five Weeks in a Balloon or Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen (1869), Dr. Ferguson sets out to discover the unknown areas of Africa with his servant in a hydrogen-filled balloon. A precursor to works like Around the World in Eighty Days, it is to some extent a parody of earlier travel narratives. Harper compared it to Dickens's Pickwick Papers: ''The interest of the book lies in the air of sober reality with which the most impossible events are narrated.''
- ISBN:
- 9781427033734
- 9781427033734
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Category:
- Fiction
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
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16-04-2009
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited
- Country of origin:
- Canada
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