Publisher's Synopsis
First work of the cycle that Jules Verne himself titled "Extraordinary Journeys". Five Weeks in a Balloon already brings together most of the elements that have made its author an indisputable classic. However, above the plot that captures the reader from the first pages, the poetic and symbolic vigor that at times connects him with the main literary currents of his century, in this novel the aroma of adventure is indelibly aspirated, of the discovery of the exotic and the unknown, of the unexplored spaces where surprise is still possible. One of his most celebrated titles and a classic of the adventure novel.
