Captain at fifteen. Five weeks on balloon

Jules Verne is a wonderful writer, the creator of a science fiction novel, one of the most read French authors in the world. From childhood, we are accompanied by his extraordinary works: “Around the world in eighty days”, “Children of Captain Grant”, “Mysterious Island”, “Twenty thousand leagues under water”. This publication presents two exciting adventure novels familiar to each reader: “Fifteen -year -old captain” and “Five weeks in the balloon”. The novel “Fifteen -year -old Captain” tells about the adventures of the young Dick Sand, who will be forced to take over the control of the Kitoboyna Schuna “Pilgrim”, holding the course to America. In the open sea and in the mainland depths of equatorial Africa, he has to face many dangers and look into the face of death more than once. The hero of the novel “Five weeks in the balloon” Samuel Fergusson makes an amazing and risky flight at a fantastic invention, the Victoria balloon control, over the unexplored territories of Central Africa. The publication is illustrated by the wonderful Czech artist Zdenek Burian. The reader will find here not only images of amazing adventures of the heroes, but also detailed schemes of the Pilgrim schooner and the Victoria balloon, as well as maps with travel routes