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Jules Verne
(1828-1905)
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Cinq semaines en ballon; voyage de découvertes en Afrique, par trois anglais
(Five weeks in a balloon; or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa, by three Englishmen) J. Hetzel: Paris
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Title page of an early French edition of "Five Weeks in a Balloon".
(Title Page)
Original caption:
Cinq Semaines en Ballon
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Illustration from the first page of "Five Weeks in a Balloon", showing the reader may expect volcanoes, lightning, and an exciting trip.
(p. 1)
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Frontispiece
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The balloon Victoria is snagged by an elephant.
(p. 98)
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Le Victoria remorqué un elephant.
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The shot of Doctor Ferguson. Animals are expendable artifacts in Verne's novels.
(p. 101)
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Le croquis du docteur Ferguson
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The lost balloon. Here Verne uses the possibility of a temperature inversion to create the mirage of a second balloon.
(p. 151)
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Le ballon inattendu
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Large scale maps figure prominently in Verne's adventures.
(p. 180)
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L'Afrique Centrale, left half.
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Verne sets at least four of his novels in Central Africa, and drew many of the maps himself.
(p. 181)
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L'Afrique Centrale, right half.
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Joe heaving overboard the tent of the gondola. Everything must go overboard when the gondola nears the ground.
(p. 238)
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Joe détachant la tente de la nacelle.
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The cataracts of Guinea. Verne intermingles the fanciful with reality — the travellers end their trip at a well known location.
(p. 253)
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Le cataractes de Gouina
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