气球上的五星期（名著双语读物中文导读+英文原版）/凡尔纳科幻经典丛书

作者简介

儒勒·凡尔纳（1828—1905），法国科幻、探险小说家。1863年出版第一部小说《气球上的五星期》，获得巨大成功，从此一发不可收。儒勒·凡尔纳一生共创作了六十六部长篇小说，几乎每部都深得读者的喜爱。 儒勒·凡尔纳的小说可分两大类：一类“在未知的世界中漫游”，另一类“在已知的世界中漫游”。他的作品景色壮观、情节惊险、构思巧妙、想象丰富，在引人人胜的故事中蕴含着鲜明的正义感和广博的历史、地理知识，不仅可以激发读者一往无前的探险精神，培养人们的坚强意志，还可以丰富人们的科学知识，让人们感受大自然的广博和神奇。 儒勒·凡尔纳的作品影响了几代人，很多被拍成了电影，历演不衰。他也是世界上从十九世纪直至现在最受欢迎的作家之一。

内容简介

第四章 非洲探险 对于弗格森博士选择的线路，巴斯博士在一八 四九年及伯顿中尉和斯皮克中尉在一八五八年尝 试过，他们只有深入一千五百英里才能到达那里。 德纳姆、克拉珀顿和乌德内在一八二二年至一 八二四年间曾到过那里，巴斯和奥弗温加入英国人 理查森的探险队，他们想得更远些，他们先到达黎 波里，之后又到达莫祖克。 随后，他们放弃纵深行进，由向导带领到达附 阿斯班绿洲。巴斯博士中途参观了阿加德斯城，后 于队伍会合到达莫古省，随后他们三人分头行进， 巴斯取道卡诺，用钱财开路到达目的地。 他于三月七日在高烧中带一名仆人去寻找三百五 十英里外的乍得湖， 在博尔努的福里科里科罗城获悉理查森去世，随后他 到达库卡，四月十四 曰到达恩高努城。 巴斯与奧弗温于一八五一年三月二十九日又去阿 达马瓦王国参观，随 后到达约拉城。 他在八月回到库卡，又出发考察了门德拉山区等 几个地方。奥弗温去 世后，他在一八五二年十一月二十五日向西行进，最 后来到巴克图。一八 五四年三月十七曰被迫离开。九月六日返回伦敦，探 险队只剩下他一人 幸存。 在对尼罗河的探险中，好多人都赔上了生命。在 一千八百年间只向前 推进了三百六十英里。 后来伯顿中尉和斯皮克中尉去非洲大潮考察。六 月十七曰离开桑给巴 尔岛，向西前进，路上行李被抢走，挑夫被打倒，通 过四个月的艰苦旅程 到达卡结赫，获得了这里的风俗信仰等资料，然后向 第一大湖坦葛喀湖进 发。考察了该湖，并考察了沿湖居住的食人族部落， 并于六月二十日回到 卡结赫。随后又向北走了三百里到达乌克列维湖考察 。八月二十五日回到 卡结赫。他们两位得到了巴黎地理学会颁发的年度奖 。 弗格森将要做的工作是要把巴斯博士和斯皮克及 伯顿的探险线路连接 起来。 The aerial line which Dr. Ferguson counted upon following had not been chosen at random; his point of departure had been carefully studied, and it was not without good cause that he had resolved to ascend at the island of Zanzibar. This island, lying near to the eastern coast of Africa, is in the sixth degree of south latitude, that is to say, four hundred and thirty geographical miles below the equator. From this island the latest expedition, sent by way of the great lakes to explore the sources of the Nile, had just set out. But it would be well to indicate what explorations Dr. Ferguson hoped to link together. The two principal ones were those of Dr. Barth in 1849, and of Lieutenants Burton and Speke in 1858. Dr. Barth is a Hamburger, who obtained permission for himself and for his countryman Overweg to join the expedition of the Englishman Richardson. The latter was charged with a mission in the Soudan. This vast region is situated between the fifteenth and tenth degrees of north latitude; that is to say, that, in order to approach it, the explorer must penetrate fifteen hundred miles into the interior of Africa. Until then, the country in question had been known only through the journeys of Denham, of Clapperton, and of Oudney, made from 1822 to 1824. Richardson, Barth, and Overweg, jealously anxious to push their investigations farther, arrived at Tunis and Tripoli, like their predecessors, and got as far as Mourzouk, the capital of Fezzan. They then abandoned the perpendicular line, and made a sharp turn westward toward Ghat, guided, with difficulty, by the Touaregs. After a thousand scenes of pillage, of vexation, and attacks by armed forces, their caravan arrived, in October, at the vast oasis of Asben. Dr. Barth separated from his companions, made an excursion to the town of Aghades, and rejoined the expedition, which resumed its march on the 12th of December. At length it reached the province of Damerghou; there the three travellers parted, and Barth took the road to Kano, where he arrived by dint of perseverance, and after paying considerable tribute. In spite of an intense fever, he quitted that place on the 7th of March, accompanied by a single servant. The principal aim of his journey was to reconnoitre Lake Tchad, from which he was still three hundred and fifty miles distant. He therefore advanced toward the east, and reached the town of Zouricolo, in the Bornou country, which is the core of the great central empire of Africa. There he heard of the death of Richardson, who had succumbed to fatigue and privation. He next arrived at Kouka, the capital of Bornou, on the borders of the lake. Finally, at the end of three weeks, on the 14th of April, twelve months after having quitted Tripoli, he reached the town of Ngornou. We find him again setting forth on the 29th of March, 1851, with Overweg, to visit the kingdom of Adamaoua, to the south of the lake, and from there he pushed on as far as the town of Yola, a little below nine degrees north latitude. This was the extreme southern limit reached by that daring traveller. He returned in the month of August to Kouka; from there he successively traversed the Mandara, Barghimi, and Klanem countries, and reached his extreme limit in the east, the town of Masena, situated at seventeen degrees twenty minutes west longitude. P24-28