Five Weeks in a Balloon: A Voyage of Exploration and Discovery in Central Africa
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Overview:
- Title: Five Weeks in a Balloon: A Voyage of Exploration and Discovery in Central Africa
- Author: Jules Verne
- Year: 1870
- Publisher: Chapman & Hall
- Pages: x+374
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: Five Weeks in a Balloon: A Voyage of Exploration and Discovery in Central Africa
- Notes: The following is from a digitized copy at the Bodleian Library www.ox.ac.uk/.
- Title, author, date, publisher, pages, format, cover art.
- Title page also has "From the French of Jules Verne".
- An external source www.julesverne.ca gives the date as at June 1, 1870.
- Publisher given on title page as "Chapman and Hall".
- Title page credits "with sixty-four illustrations by Riou" - Édouard Riou. Sixty-three of the illustrations come from the 1865 and 1867 French editions, but one (on the title page) seems new.
- The Contents start on (unnumbered) page v, with the remainder on numbered pages vi through x. The novel starts on page 1.
- Copy uploaded on Archive.org in May of 2008 also includes the 1870 Charlton Tucker edition of Le Sage's The Lame Devil.