Fifteen-year-old captain. Five weeks in a balloon
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Fifteen-year-old captain. Five weeks in a balloon
19.99 €
Jules Verne (1828-1905) is a famous writer, creator of the science fiction novel genre, one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Since childhood, we have been accompanied by his extraordinary works: Around the World in Eighty Days, The Children of Captain Grant, The Mysterious Island, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and many others. This edition presents two exciting adventure novels familiar to every reader: The Fifteen-Year-Old Captain and Five Weeks in a Balloon.
The novel The Fifteen-Year-Old Captain tells the story of the adventures of young Dick Sand, who by chance is forced to take charge of the whaling schooner Pilgrim, heading for America. On the high seas and in the continental depths of Equatorial Africa, he has to face many dangers and more than once look death in the face.
The hero of the novel Five Weeks in a Balloon, Samuel Fergusson, makes an amazing and risky flight on a fantastic invention, the controlled balloon Victoria, over the uncharted territories of Central Africa.
The novel The Fifteen-Year-Old Captain tells the story of the adventures of young Dick Sand, who by chance is forced to take charge of the whaling schooner Pilgrim, heading for America. On the high seas and in the continental depths of Equatorial Africa, he has to face many dangers and more than once look death in the face.
The hero of the novel Five Weeks in a Balloon, Samuel Fergusson, makes an amazing and risky flight on a fantastic invention, the controlled balloon Victoria, over the uncharted territories of Central Africa.
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