Les Enfants du Capitaine Grant (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Les Enfants du Capitaine Grant<br><br>Jules Verne says: I wrote Five Weeks in a Balloon not as a story about balloons but as a story about Africa. As I could not carry my personages across the continent otherwise I placed them in a balloon; my object was to give a picturesque description of No matter what I invent I shall always fall short of the truth. A time will come when scientific discoveries will surpass any creations of the imagination.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.