Around the World in 80 Days

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What would Jules Verne make of this interpretation of his story? After all, he based his novel on a true story, right? There are maybe half a dozen similarities between book and TV versions, so don't expect the same escapades if you have seen the dramatisation first.

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Zacchia, Jill. "Around the World in 80 Hours". Flightfox.com. Archived from the original on 24 November 2015 . Retrieved 23 November 2015.That morning while playing whist at the club, Fogg and his friends overhear news that a robber disguised as a gentleman has stolen 55,000 pounds from the Bank of England. One of the members, Andrew Stuart, remarks that the robber is probably long gone, since the world is so large and there are plenty of places to hide. This comment piques Fogg’s interest. Fogg says the world “was once” large, but it is no longer so big. He says that it is now possible to travel across the world in eighty days due to modern advances in transportation. Fogg’s friends scoff at him, which emboldens him to make a daring wager: He bets 20,000 pounds, all the money he has in the bank, that he can travel around the world in eighty days. The men accept his wager and agree to find him at the Reform Club, in the same room, at the same time, eighty days later, on December 21 at 8:45 p.m. or they will collect the bet. The book is evergreen, enchanting, and has that magic to it that can never go stale. My favourite scene will always be when Fogg, Passepartout, and the Parsee elephant rider saves Aouda from death in the jungles of India. Another scene which I have always highly appreciated is the ending when Aouda expresses her love for Fogg and the discovery of Passepartout as he goes out to engage a priest for their wedding. Damrosch’s curriculum is encyclopaedic but at the same time fondly personal. He includes his own snapshots of the pyramids in Egypt, the desert fortress at Masada, and some Mayan temples in the Mexico jungle. A chapter on colonialism is illustrated by a portrait of his parents, who early in their marriage ventured to the Philippines as Anglican missionaries; there, his father learned the language of the Igorot mountain dwellers, with whom he discussed theology, medicine and, of course, the weather. Inheriting this evangelism, Damrosch sees travel as a mental and moral challenge, not Phileas Fogg’s brisk experiment in abbreviating space and accelerating time. Around the World in 80 Books takes us on a tour of the author’s global head, and while expanding our knowledge it enlarges our capacity for fellow-feeling. Similar to The Journey to the Centre of the Earth which I read yesterday - Verne creates amazingly awesome and complex characters. The main protagonist Mr. Fogg is an obsessive-compulsive routine loving timekeeper who bets his chums at the club that he can travel around the world in 80 days, which a newspaper said was possible - if no delays were incurred. He is so deep, that so much is beneath the surface of this quiet, content gentleman. Never fearing or worrying whatever dilemmas are thrown in his path and always willing to fail the mission to help his friends. He is also very good at handling a boat. I have to ask - does anyone know if he has been in any of Verne's previous stories as it seems like he has an amazing past. If he hasn't been present and that is just what is built up by the writing in this book I am speechless.

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Herold, Charles (7 January 2006). "Circumnavigating This World, and a Visit to Another". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 26 September 2019 . Retrieved 26 September 2019. Passepartout heard the street door shut once; it was his new master going out. He heard it shut again; it was his predecessor, James Forster, departing in his turn. Passepartout remained alone in the house on Savile Row. Philippe Burgaud, Jean-Michel Margot and Brian Taves. "The Palik Series, Volume 6". North American Jules Verne Society . Retrieved 2 June 2022. I absolutely loved this! And now I'm wondering, How have I never read this or any of Jules Verne work, for that matter? Worlds of Fun, an amusement park in Kansas City, Missouri, was conceived using the novel as its theme. [38]In 2017, Mark Beaumont, a British cyclist inspired by Verne, set out to cycle across the world in 80 days. He completed the trip in 78 days, 14 hours and 40 minutes, after departing from Paris on 2 July 2017. Beaumont beat the previous world record of 123 days, set by Andrew Nicholson, by cycling 29,000km (18,000mi) across the globe visiting Russia, Mongolia, China, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, US and a number of countries in Europe. [15] The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.” I got this novel from my cousin. It’s her course book. I didn’t want to read this novel because it’s out of my taste. It’s neither Fantasy nor Sci-Fi. But she made me to read this… Around the World in Eighty Days, is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in 1873.