He's an engaging and brisk narrator, moving quickly through the book’s 44 chapters. (Going out on a limb, I'm guessing he's the head of Graham Scott Audio). It's almost impossible to find a Verne audiobook that uses a good translation, so on that score alone, the producer deserves kudos: all the more so because translator and editor are given credit on the cover. That by itself isn't unusual what makes this special is that it uses the most recent and best translation of the novel, the one by Frederick Paul Walter, edited by Arthur B Evans, originally published in 2015 by Wesleyan University Press. Graham Scott Audio has released an audiobook of Jules Verne's first novel, Five Weeks in a Balloon. Fusing adventure, comedy, and science fiction, Five Weeks has all the key ingredients of classic Verne: sly humor and cheeky characters, an innovative scientific invention, a tangled plot that's full of suspense and surprise, and visions of an unknown realm. It tells the tale of a 4,000-mile balloon trip over the mysterious continent of Africa, a trip that wouldn't actually take place until well into the next century. Initially published in 1863, Five Weeks in a Balloon was the first novel in what would become the author's Extraordinary Voyages series. Evans, this edition honors not only Verne's farseeing science but also his zest, style, and storytelling brilliance. Prepared by two of America's leading Verne scholars, Frederick Paul Walter and Arthur B. One of the great "first novels" in world literature is now available in a complete, accurate English translation.
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