Around the World in Eighty Days & 5 Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne, Roger Cardinal (Introduction) (Wordsworth Classics) ; 1873/1997. Softcover.

This edition contains two of the most famous stories by 'The Father of Science Fiction' - Jules Verne.

Around the World in 80 Days is a romantic tale recounting the adventurous travels of the hero, the Englishman Phileas Fogg, and his French valet, Passepartout. Fogg takes on a bet at his London club that he can circle the world in 80 days and there follows a series of fantastic adventures for the loyal servant and his resourceful and inventive master.

Five Weeks in a Balloon vividly describes the adventures of an English scientist and his two companions as they cross Africa by balloon.