The most terrible wars are civil wars, when hatred goes beyond all limits, when a brother goes against his brother, when getting captured can be worse than death. It was in this situation that the five northerners found themselves, whose desire for freedom was stronger than the fear of dying in captivity or while trying to escape. But the result of the flight in a balloon turned out to be unpredictable: as a result of a hurricane, they were brought to a desert island. Many adventures and dangers await them there, but courage, knowledge and ingenuity will allow them not only to survive, but...

“Five Weeks in a Balloon” is a bright and fascinating fiction novel of a famous French writer Jules Verne. Such books promote humanitarian development of young people, liberalizing and getting knowledge about the world and a human. They can be used for the studying....

In “Around the World in Eighty Days” Verne describes an imperturbable Englishman and his deft servant who hurry to double the terrestrial globe on a bet and experience many adventures. In contrast to many other invented adventures of Verne’s books where heroes travelled on imaginary and not yet invented transports, here characters use the existing ones....