Five Weeks in a Balloon (Paperback)

from cargocontainer

This is my second time reading a book by Jules Verne, and I'm glad it wasn't my first. It was a decent story, marred primarily by a very racist view of the African people (and to a lesser extent, of Arabs) and a few very implausible stretches of reality. This was written ten years before the firs...

from YoungTrek

Originally released in French in 1863; first published in English in 1890 (English translation by William Lackland). First in Verne's Extraordinary Voyages series. Full title: Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Gentlemen. In this first of Verne's adventure no...

from PhilSyphe

Four years have passed since I read "Five Weeks in a Balloon" and all I remember about it is that it was slow, tedious, and neither characters nor plot engaged me at all.