Les Enfants du capitaine Grant

Excerpt from Les Enfants du Capitaine Grant Jules Verne says: I wrote Five Weeks in a Balloon, not as a story about balloons, but as a story about Africa. As I could not carry my personages across the continent otherwise, I placed them in a balloon; my object was to give a picturesque description of No matter what I invent, I shall always fall short of the truth. A time will come when scientific discoveries will surpass any creations of the imagination. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.