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Down goes the sandbag. Up goes the balloon.
Imagine exploring a distant land and in a giant balloon. You could fly high over mountains and waterfalls, and from your seat in the basket hanging beneath the balloon, you could see the whole land stretched out below you like a giant and colorful bedspread.
You could drift in your balloon over winding rivers, deep blue lakes, and flaming mouths of volcanoes. Or you could peer down on elephants and tigers in jungles.
If it rained, you wouldn’t even get wet. You’d just drop some more sandbags, and with the balloon so much lighter you’d rise higher and higher until you floated in the bright sunshine above the clouds.
A man named Jules Verne imagined such a journey many years ago, before anyone had traveled far through the air. He wrote about his imaginary journey in a book called Five Weeks in a Balloon.
Maybe you’d rather take a make-believe journey to the moon.
You could stare out of your spaceship’s window and watch the Earth grow smaller and smaller, while the moon seemed to grow bigger and bigger.
Jules Verne did just that in his story From the Earth to the Moon.
When today’s astronauts soar to the moon in their space capsules, they make a journey that Jules Verne imagined long before even the first airplane rose off the ground.
“Look out for the eight-armed octopus!”
“Look out for the man-eating shark!”
“Look out for the giant squid!”
You’d have to “look out” your window, that’s all, to see these ocean monsters. At least, you could if you were traveling beneath the sea in an imaginary submarine. In your submarine you could travel all year, deep in the ocean, and spend hour after hour watching a parade of rare and beautiful fishes of different shapes and colors.
Yes, Jules Verne wrote a story about his imaginary adventures – Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. He named his imaginary submarine the Nautilus.
Many years later the first United States nuclear submarine was named the Nautilus in honor of the man who had imagined what its journeys would be like.
People have said that Jules Verne invented the future.
He said that he was just very fortunate to live and write in a time when new discoveries and inventions would make such wonderful adventures and dreams possible someday.
Jules Verne believed in his imaginary journeys. Whatever he could imagine, he used to say, someone else, someday, would be able to do.
If you were going to imagine a journey, what would yours be like?
Imagine exploring a distant land and in a giant balloon. You could fly high over mountains and waterfalls, and from your seat in the basket hanging beneath the balloon, you could see the whole land stretched out below you like a giant and colorful bedspread.
You could drift in your balloon over winding rivers, deep blue lakes, and flaming mouths of volcanoes. Or you could peer down on elephants and tigers in jungles.
If it rained, you wouldn’t even get wet. You’d just drop some more sandbags, and with the balloon so much lighter you’d rise higher and higher until you floated in the bright sunshine above the clouds.
A man named Jules Verne imagined such a journey many years ago, before anyone had traveled far through the air. He wrote about his imaginary journey in a book called Five Weeks in a Balloon.
Maybe you’d rather take a make-believe journey to the moon.
You could stare out of your spaceship’s window and watch the Earth grow smaller and smaller, while the moon seemed to grow bigger and bigger.
Jules Verne did just that in his story From the Earth to the Moon.
When today’s astronauts soar to the moon in their space capsules, they make a journey that Jules Verne imagined long before even the first airplane rose off the ground.
“Look out for the eight-armed octopus!”
“Look out for the man-eating shark!”
“Look out for the giant squid!”
You’d have to “look out” your window, that’s all, to see these ocean monsters. At least, you could if you were traveling beneath the sea in an imaginary submarine. In your submarine you could travel all year, deep in the ocean, and spend hour after hour watching a parade of rare and beautiful fishes of different shapes and colors.
Many years later the first United States nuclear submarine was named the Nautilus in honor of the man who had imagined what its journeys would be like.
People have said that Jules Verne invented the future.
He said that he was just very fortunate to live and write in a time when new discoveries and inventions would make such wonderful adventures and dreams possible someday.
Jules Verne believed in his imaginary journeys. Whatever he could imagine, he used to say, someone else, someday, would be able to do.
If you were going to imagine a journey, what would yours be like?
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