Around the World in Eighty Days & Five Weeks in a Balloon
Jules Verne
384 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 1853260908
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Language: English
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19th CenturyAdventureChildrensClassicsFantasyFictionFranceHistorical FictionNovelsScience Fiction
This edition contains two of the most famous stories by ‘The Father of Science Fiction’ – Jules Verne.
Around the World in 80 Days is a romantic tale recounting the adventurous travels of the hero, the Englishman Phileas Fogg, and his French valet, Passepartout. Fogg takes on a bet at his London club that he can circle the world in 80 days and there follows a series of fantastic adventures for the loyal servant and his resourceful and inventive master.
Five Weeks in a Balloon vividly describes the adventures of an English scientist and his two companions as they cross Africa by balloon.