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Five Weeks in a Baloon

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الرحلة الجوية في المركبة الهوائية هو ترجمة عربية ليوسف إليان سركيس (1856-1932 أو 1933) لرواية سانك سيمن إين بالون، وهي رواية للكاتب الفرنسي جوليس فيرن نُشرت في الأصل عام 1863. الطبعة المبذولة هنا هي الثانية لهذا العمل، وقد أصدرتها مطبعة اليسوعيين في بيروت عام 1884 (نُشرت الطبعة الأولى عام 1875). تحكي الرواية قصة المستكشف د. صموئيل فيرغسون، الذي انطلق في رحلة على منطاد ممتلئ بالهدروجين بهدف عبور قارة إفريقيا، وذلك بصحبة خادم وصديق. وقد كان أحد أهداف الرحلة هو العثور على منبع النيل. جاءت الفصول الأولى من ترجمة سركيس مضغوطة، فالعمل بأكمله أتى في 42 فصلاً، في مقابل العمل الأصلي المكون من 44 فصلاً. ولد سركيس في دمشق وكان واحداً من أبرز المؤلفين والمحققين العرب في عصره. وقد عاش فترة في إسطنبول لكنه أمضى معظم بقية حياته في القاهرة. نشط سركيس بوصفه ناشراً وبائعاً للكتب وأديباً وقام ببعض الأبحاث عن الآثار بوجه عام، لكنه اهتم بعلم المسكوكات بوجه خاص. ويشتهر سركيس بعمله معجم المطبوعات العربية والمُعربة الذي نُشر عام 1928. وقد توفي بالقاهرة.



1869. With illustrations. French writer and pioneer of science fiction, who is best known today for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days. Five Weeks in a Balloon is Verne's first novel. It is, in a measure, a satire on modern books of African travel. So far as the geography, the inhabitants, the animals, and the features of the countries the travelers pass over are described, it is entirely accurate. It gives, in some particulars, a survey of nearly the whole field of African discovery, and in this way will often serve to refresh the memory of the reader. The mode of locomotion is, of course, purely imaginary, and the incidents and adventures fictitious. The latter are abundantly amusing, and, in view of the wonderful travelers' tales with which we have been entertained by African explorers, they can scarcely be extravagant; while the ingenuity and invention of the author will be sure to excite the surprise and the admiration of the reader, who will find Verne as much at home in voyaging through the air as in journeying Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas.

315 pages, Paperback

First published January 31, 1863

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Jules Verne

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Novels of French writer Jules Gabriel Verne, considered the founder of modern science fiction, include Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).

This author who pioneered the genre. People best know him for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870).

Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before people invented navigable aircraft and practical submarines and devised any means of spacecraft. He ranks behind Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie as the second most translated author of all time. People made his prominent films. People often refer to Verne alongside Herbert George Wells as the "father of science fiction."

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