Five Weeks in a Balloon

<p>Five Weeks in a Balloon</em> is the first book in Jules Verne's Voyages extraordinaires</em> series which includes the novels Journey to the Center of the Earth</em> Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea</em> and Around the World in Eighty Days</em>. The story follows explorer Dr. Samuel Fergusson his manservant Joe and his friend Dick Kennedy as they travel across the African continent in a hot air balloon. The novel was first published in 1863 and was an instant success.</p>