A scholar, Dr. Samuel Ferguson, accompanied by his manservant Joe and his friend Richard "Dick" Kennedy, sets out to travel across the African continent — still not fully explored — with the help of a hot-air balloon filled with hydrogen.
Language: English
Published in: 1869
Translator: William Lackland
Word count: 90,262 words (≈ about 6 hours)
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3526
Copyright: Public Domain