Review: Cinq semaines en ballon: Voyage de découvertes en Afrique par trois anglais, by Jules Verne

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I didn’t like this book, despite having liked his other books.  I found this story racist and condescending.

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Je n’ai pas trouvé cet livre a mon gout, malgré le fait d’avoit aimé les autres livres de Jules Verne. Cette histoire ci, je trouves, se trait des indigenes comment des sauvages en Afrique, et sont toujours les hommes blanc les sauveurs les uns des autres.

“”Un homme qui est né pour être pendu ne va pas se noyer!”
Les anglais…” / “A man who was born to be hanged will not drown!”   -Brits…

‘Mais, c’est ridicule : aucune sheikh se prosternerait devant en anglais, descendu d’un ballon ou pas !”

“Les deux hommes forts par la même idée.”
Two men made strong by a shared idea.”

 “Mais c’est trop de coïncidence !!”

November 21, 2020 –”Most of Timbuktu’s priceless manuscripts are in private hands, where they’ve been hidden for long years, and some have vanished into the black market in a trade that threatens to take with it part of Timbuktu’s soul. There is hope that libraries and cultural centers…””

November 21, 2020″From encyclopedia Brit… On Timbuktu”

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Sorry, ok maybe not so much, but Jules Verne is really no Alexandre Dumas, Sr..

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Shira

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