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Around the World in Eighty DaysOn the coverRain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway, J. M. W. Turner, 1844
Around the World in Eighty Days
On a wager made in his London club, the unflappable Phileas Fogg sets out to circle the globe in eighty days, with an excitable French valet and a dogged detective on his heels. A breathless Victorian race against the clock by rail, steamer, and elephant.
No companion available yet.
Pure, joyful momentum, the original race around the world, full of near-misses and the romance of a newly connected globe. Perhaps the most purely fun book in the canon.
SettingAround the globe, 1872
The 1870s, when the Suez Canal and transcontinental railways had suddenly shrunk the planet, and a European gentleman could, for the first time, imagine circling it on a schedule.