The Fifteen-Year-Old Captain. Five Weeks in a Balloon

Jules Verne (1828–1905) — a famous writer, the creator of the genre of science fiction novel, one of the most 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 command of the whaling ship “Pilgrim,” heading for America. In the open sea and in the continental depths of Equatorial Africa, he has to face many dangers and look death in the face more than once.
The hero of the novel “Five Weeks in a Balloon,” Samuel Ferguson, makes an extraordinary and risky flight in a fantastic invention, the airship “Victoria,” over unexplored territories of Central Africa.
The texts are accompanied by illustrations by the wonderful Czech artist Zdeněk Burian (1905–1981).