Five Weeks In A Balloon
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Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in It is the first novel. Five Weeks in a Balloon is a American adventure film loosely based on the novel of the same name by Jules Verne filmed in CinemaScope.
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The Jet of Light. Joe in a Fit of Rage. The Wind dies away. One Hundred and Thirteen Degrees.
Five Weeks in a Balloon
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Five Weeks in a Balloon is an adventure novel by Jules Verne. 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'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. Read more Read less. Add both to Cart Add both to List.
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The crew flee to their ship, taking the American. That's the key message. Peter Lorre as Ahmed. In it was reported a British company wanted to film the novel starring Robert Ryan. But when I neared the end, I just couldn't deny the feeling that I really ought to give it a perfect rating. That is certainly the case in FWIAB, which was written at a time when the average reading public's knowledge both of the interior of Africa and of ballooning were sketchy at best. Read reviews that mention jules verne weeks in a balloon classic jules mysterious island character development hydrogen balloon around the world science fiction african continent across africa balloon is another verne novel easy read fun to read read by jules verne book explorers descriptions expect journey.
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Showing of 71 reviews. Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. Five Weeks in a Balloon was the first novel that made Jules Verne famous. Published in , it is, like all his other famous works, the story of a fantastic journey.
In this case, the journey is across what was then known as 'Darkest Africa' in a balloon. All of Verne's great books are about journeys of one sort or another; either Around the World in 80 Days, to the Center of the Earth, beneath the sea in a submarine, through the sky in some form of airship, to the Moon in a cannon shell or, in the case of Michael Strogoff, merely overland across Russia and Central Asia.
Verne has often been called the first science-fiction writer. Perhaps that description is actually quite appropriate, because much of Verne's 'science' is pretty much 'fiction'.
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That is certainly the case in FWIAB, which was written at a time when the average reading public's knowledge both of the interior of Africa and of ballooning were sketchy at best. There was a reason why people used to refer to interior of Africa as 'Darkest Africa' or 'The Dark Continent', and it had nothing to do with 'race'.
Up until the mid s few outsiders had ever been farther inland than a few miles from the coast, so that most of the continent was still a blank space on the map. At the time when Verne wrote FWIAB the newspapers were becoming filled with stories of dauntless explorers penetrating the mysteries of the 'Dark Continent', so it was a natural subject for a fantasist such as Verne. However, at the time the book was written most of the interior of the continent was still unknown, so don't expect to use FWIAB as a source for geographical accuracy.
For example, Verne describes a region of arid, water-less desert a position where the Congo River actually is, not that anybody would have known the difference at the time. Since ballooning was an equally new and exiting activity, it was a natural choice to combine the two.
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Needless to say, Jules Verne's grasp of ballooning was about as vague as his knowledge of the interior of Africa. Even a rudimentary knowledge of aerostatic theory reveals that the amount of lift generated by the amount of hydrogen in the balloon in FWIAB would have fallen short by about half a ton. In other words, Verne's 'Victoria' would undoubtedly have turned out to have been the original 'Lead Zeppelin'. Technicalities notwithstanding, what the reader will find here is a charming 'flight of fancy' to strange places with three dauntless, 19th-Century British explorers.
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Don't look for 21st-Century sensibilities or Dostoyevskian themes and character development, because you won't ever find those things in any of the works of Jules Verne. In other words, so long as the reader doesn't expect too much, just a pleasant story about a fantastic adventure, then the reader won't be disappointed. It can be fun to read how the writers of the past imagined things and places they had never seen and experienced. In many chapters there is far too much fact and not enough imaginative fiction, for me anyway. Due to this, it was difficult to separate fact from fiction.
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This blurring is sometimes a fine literary tool, but here when describing the natives and their customs I found it difficult to read. As intelligent and accurate as Verne is with his science, he obviously has no idea about hunting, dressing, butchering, and cooking wild animals. Also amusing is the oh-so-cordial way that Verne's characters treat each other.