Five Weeks in a Balloon

“A classic piece of French speculative fiction” from the author of Around the World in Eighty Days and Journey to the Center of the Earth (Los Angeles Review of Books).
 
The first book of Jules Verne’s Extraordinary Voyages series, Five Weeks in a Balloon follows the adventures of English inventor Samuel Fergusson and the passengers on his magnificent hot air balloon: his dutiful assistant, Joe, ...