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Five Weeks in a Balloon

Jules Verne

Start date: March 1, 2019

Finish date: March 31, 2019

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Feb 11, 2018 Claire rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: precinct-81

Not the best Verne I read. It still amazes me how modern some comments feel. At the other side: the tone sadly is very racist and only understandable if you look at the time it was written.
However there are far better works of Julles Verne worth the read.

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Mar 03, 2008 Laura rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Jules Vernes nous offre ici une aventure dans laquelle le docteur Samuel Fergusson, savant, voyageur infatigable et journaliste à I'affût de I'aventure, entreprend un voyage aérien en ballon. ll espère réussir grâce à l'invention d'un procédé lui donnant un contrôle absolu de la force ascensionnelle de son aérostat, le ‘’Victoria’’, qui a été construit d'après ses dessins. ...more

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