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Adventure: Balloon from Zanzibar

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A weekly series of films taken by travellers and explorers on their expeditions throughout the world.

In 1862 Jules Verne published his Five Weeks in a Balloon describing a fictitious air journey from Zanzibar to Senegal. A hundred years later Anthony Smith and Douglas Botting by balloon from Zanzibar across the sea channel to the mainland of Africa. In this, the first of three films, the balloonists are forced to land in the African bush.
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Contributors

Narrator/balloonist:
Anthony Smith
Filmed by/balloonist:
Douglas Botting
Filmed by:
Alan Root
Film editor:
Robert Walter
Presented by:
Brian Branston
Series edited by:
David Attenborough
Source: Radio Times

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