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Five Weeks in a Balloon

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What is Five Weeks in a Balloon about?

Above Africa, three companions trust their lives to a balloon, careful reasoning, and a dwindling supply of gas.

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We are all, in one way or another, the children of Jules Verne.
Ray Bradbury, American author and screenwriter (1920–2012) · Introduction · Source

Product details

Author
Jules Verne
Edition language
English
Available languages
25
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Audiobook length
10 h 28 min
Publisher
Library of Alexandria Press LLC

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About Jules Verne

1828–1905

All 23 books by Jules Verne

Questions about Five Weeks in a Balloon

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Is this the whole of Five Weeks in a Balloon?

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