The first novel of the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1863, Five Weeks in a Balloon is an adventure novel. A trip to Africa, a mysterious continent for Europeans, is narrated to the finest detail by a hot air balloon under the direction of a scientist named Doctor Fergusson, who is an explorer. The novel, which talks about imaginary travels, was written like a real travel diary, and managed to cast doubt on the readers of the period when it was written as to whether the narrations were ...