Around the World in Eighty Days & Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne

Around the World in 80 Days is a romantic tale recounting the adventurous travels of the hero, the Englishman Phileas Fogg, and his French valet, Passepartout. Fogg takes on a bet at his London club that he can circle the world in 80 days and there follows a series of fantastic adventures for the loyal servant and his resourceful and inventive master.

Five Weeks in a Balloon vividly describes the adventures of an English scientist and his two companions as they cross Africa by balloon.