Five weeks in a hot air balloon
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Five weeks in a hot air balloon
14.99 €
Jules Verne was one of the few people who managed to realize his childhood dreams of traveling. From Nantes, where the future writer was born in 1828, to the shores of the Atlantic was only 50 kilometers. From the shore of the Loire, where his father had a summer house, the masts of ships could be seen. Jules' father wanted his son to become a lawyer, the rejection of this imposed choice gave rise to a young man's craving for writing. And although he traveled mainly with the heroes of his novels, in real life, Jules Verne still became a member of the French Geographical Society. We can say that he was a pioneer traveler in the fantastic world of the wonderful and unexplored. In collaboration with publisher Pierre-Jules Etzel, Jules Verne created a whole series of "Extraordinary Journeys", which began with the novel "Five Weeks in a Balloon". Like almost everything else Verne wrote, the thrilling story of flight over Africa can be called an adventure novel. Incredible discoveries, unexpected dangers, courage and bravery of heroes - all this attracts readers to this work and in our days.
Illustrations in this edition are made by a wonderful artist Peter Ivanovich Lugansky. He was a great admirer of Jules Verne's work. In the post-war years Lugansky's illustrations decorated Soviet editions of such famous books as "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", "The Fifteen-Year-Old Captain" and "The Floating Island". During the artist's lifetime, six editions of "Captain Grant's Children" were published, and all the drawings in them differed. In this and other books by Jules Verpa before domestic readers opened an unfamiliar and tantalizing world, which acted brave heroes and tireless pioneers, making their way through the dense jungle, furrowing the seas on their sailing ships and flying over Africa in a hot air balloon. All of these mesmerizing images could be seen firsthand thanks to Lugansky's talent. Where and how did he research the nature he was painting? Studied the fashion of the XIX century? Flipped through old albums? Or creative imagination allowed him to faithfully reproduce pictures of life, which he did not see with his own eyes? After all, Peter Ivanovich never left the borders of his homeland. He was born in 1911, graduated from one of the oldest art schools in Ukraine - a kind of analog of Stieglitz School in St. Petersburg. Then he worked in the Leningrad "Uchpedgiz". After the war, book design became the main creative work for the artist. He illustrated works by Kaverin, Belyaev, Stevenson and Mein Reid. Yet his favorite writer has always been Jules Verne.
Illustrations in this edition are made by a wonderful artist Peter Ivanovich Lugansky. He was a great admirer of Jules Verne's work. In the post-war years Lugansky's illustrations decorated Soviet editions of such famous books as "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", "The Fifteen-Year-Old Captain" and "The Floating Island". During the artist's lifetime, six editions of "Captain Grant's Children" were published, and all the drawings in them differed. In this and other books by Jules Verpa before domestic readers opened an unfamiliar and tantalizing world, which acted brave heroes and tireless pioneers, making their way through the dense jungle, furrowing the seas on their sailing ships and flying over Africa in a hot air balloon. All of these mesmerizing images could be seen firsthand thanks to Lugansky's talent. Where and how did he research the nature he was painting? Studied the fashion of the XIX century? Flipped through old albums? Or creative imagination allowed him to faithfully reproduce pictures of life, which he did not see with his own eyes? After all, Peter Ivanovich never left the borders of his homeland. He was born in 1911, graduated from one of the oldest art schools in Ukraine - a kind of analog of Stieglitz School in St. Petersburg. Then he worked in the Leningrad "Uchpedgiz". After the war, book design became the main creative work for the artist. He illustrated works by Kaverin, Belyaev, Stevenson and Mein Reid. Yet his favorite writer has always been Jules Verne.
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