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Jules Verne "Five Weeks in a Balloon" front cover. One of the most famous versions includes an ornate red or blue cloth binding with gold and black embossed decorations. The cover often prominently displays an illustration of a grand hot air balloon soaring over an African landscape, emphasizing the novel’s central theme of exploration. The balloon is depicted above exotic terrain, with figures in the balloon's basket scanning the horizon.

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Jules Verne "Five Weeks in a Balloon" front cover. One of the most famous versions includes an ornate red or blue cloth binding with gold and black embossed decorations. The cover often prominently displays an illustration of a grand hot air balloon soaring over an African landscape, emphasizing the novel’s central theme of exploration. The balloon is depicted above exotic terrain, with figures in the balloon's basket scanning the horizon.
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#OTD in 1863.
Jules Verne's novel Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen (Cinq semaines en ballon) is published in Paris. It will be the first of Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires. This was Verne's first novel to be published by Pierre-Jules Hetzel, following the rejection of Voyage en Angleterre et en Écosse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Weeks_in_a_Balloon
Five Weeks in a Balloon at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/3526
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/4548
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