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Title: Around the World in Eighty Days
Author: VERNE JULES
Illustrator: COLLINS ROSS
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/10/2024
Imprint: BLOOMSBURY
Price: $14.99
Publishing status: NOT YET PUBLISHED
Having learnt that a new railway in India has made it theoretically possible to travel all the way around the globe in no more than eighty days, Phileas Fogg, a wealthy and fastidious London gentleman, makes a wager of £20,000 with his Reform Club associates that he can achieve this hitherto unheard-of feat, and, accompanied by his French valet Jean Passepartout, boards a train for Dover the very same evening. Pursued on their epic journey by a Scotland Yard policeman who has mistaken Fogg for a bank robber, the intrepid voyagers face a race against time as they traverse a range of exotic and sometimes hazardous landscapes and make use of any and every mode of transport available to them including elephants in order to achieve their goal.
A huge commercial success on first publication in 1872, Jules Verne s classic adventure story has been adapted numerous times for the stage and the screen, as well as inspiring many real-life adventurers who have sought to emulate Fogg s audacious odyssey.
Series: Alma Junior Classics
ISBN: 9781847499202
Dimension: 8in X 5in
Pages: 288