. . "Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen (French: Cinq semaines en ballon) is an adventure novel by Jules Verne.It is the first Verne novel in which he perfected the \"ingredients\" of his later work, skillfully mixing a plot full of adventure and twists that hold the reader's interest with passages of technical, geographic, and historic description."@en . "Five Weeks in a Balloon"@en . . . . "Cinq semaines en ballon"@en . . "N/A" . . . . .