How long does it take to read Five Weeks in a Balloon?
Jules Verne, Frederick Paul Walter, Arthur B. Evans
Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne, Frederick Paul Walter, Arthur B. Evans takes about 7 hours 16 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Voyages Extraordinaires
Next: The Adventures of Captain Hatteras
About 7 hours 16 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2015. 396 pages, about 108,900 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 6 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 16 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 32 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Initially published in 1863, Five Weeks in a Balloon was the first novel in what would become Jules Verne's Extraordinay Voyages series. 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. 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. As part of the Early Classics of Science Fiction series, this critical edition features extensive notes, all the illustrations from the original French version, and a complete Verne biography and bibliography."--Book jacket.
Subjects: Fiction, science fiction, general, Ballooning, Fiction, Hot air balloons, Voyages around the world
