Jules Verne's adventure novel Five Weeks in a Balloon narrates the voyage of three men in a hydrogen baloon. Perhaps through this novel Verne mastered the art of writing precise details on the scientific and geographic information in a fiction novel. The trio comprising a  scholar, his servant and a friend starts flying and encounters various adventures including fight with tribes, being thrown out of baloon and escaping from being captured by military.

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