Five Weeks in a Balloon
| First published | 1974 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | New English Library |
| Format | Paperback |
| Type | Novel |
| Cover art | Patrick Woodroffe |
| Pages | 205 |
| Price | £0.40 |
| ISBN | 0450019322 |
{{Tr|an unknown hand}}, first published as Five Weeks in a Balloon: A Voyage of Exploration and Discovery in Central Africa by Chapman & Hall in 1870. This translation begins: "There have been disputes as to the originator of the great idea of traversing the African continent, in a manner to be independent of its multitudinous and deadly obstructions; but the subjoined narrative will, we cannot doubt, be sufficient to assure the reader that the man who undertook, and in the face of unexampled difficulties carried out the project, conceived it, and stands indebted to no one for the honours now accumulating on the name of Dr. Samuel Fergusson."
"First published in England by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington Ltd., in 1890" "This NEL Paperback edition August 1974" Novel ends on page 204. Numbered page205 has a page on Jules Verne, uncredited. Cover art credit from Mythopoeikon. Back cover has the following prices:
- U.K. 40p
- Cyprus 450 mils
- Gibraltar 45p
- Malta 45c
- New Zealand $1.25
- Spain Pts 105
- Trinidad (W.I.) $2.40
- Australia $1.25