Explorers cross unmapped Africa by hydrogen balloon, surviving deserts, beasts, and storms. Verne's first great adventure novel.
Books mentioned in Five Weeks in a Balloon (4)
The Sources of the Nile by Charles Beke: “It was entitled "The Sources of the Nile; being a General Survey of the Basin of that River and of its Head-Stream, with the History of the Nilotic Discovery, by Charles Beke, D.D."”
The Monastery by Walter Scott: “Kennedy's countenance strikingly recalled that of Herbert Glendinning, as Sir Walter Scott has depicted it in "The Monastery"”
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: “and to some extent, I verily believe, of Selkirk (Robinson Crusoe), whom he considered in no wise inferior to the rest.”
The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe: “"An admirable landscape for the 'Mysteries of Udolpho'!" exclaimed the doctor. "Ann Radcliffe could not have depicted yon mountains in a more”
Books that mention Five Weeks in a Balloon (1)
The Girl from the Marsh Croft by Selma Lagerlöf: “reading a Jules Verne romance entitled 'Six Weeks in a Balloon.' The book is much worn.”