About the book: 2017 / "Children's Library" - a series of excellent children's books with incredible stories, fairy tales and short stories. The sixtieth volume includes the novel "Five Weeks on the Air ball" is a bright and fascinating science fiction novel by the famous French writer J. Verne. Central Africa is one of the most inaccessible regions of the globe, and expeditions there are always fraught with enormous difficulties. The English traveler Dr. Samuel Ferguson proposes a truly revolutionary method of exploring these territories and, together with two companions, sets off on a journey over central Africa in a hot air balloon, wanting to connect together the discoveries of previous expeditions…