Jules Verne 
Five Weeks in a Balloon 

Jules Verne was a prolific French writer who greatly influenced the science fiction genre. Verne is the second most-translated author behind only Agatha Christie.

A scholar, Dr. Samuel Ferguson, accompanied by his manservant Joe and his friend Richard ‘Dick’ Kennedy, sets out to travel across the African continent — still not fully explored — with the help of a hot-air balloon.