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In a certain sense, the story was also a showcase of the vastness of the British Empire at that time, as the majority of places visited by Fogg were British colonies. Around the World in Eighty Days was first published as a serial from October to December , causing some readers to believe that the journey took place in real life.

The book was published in The complete text of the novel is on Wikisource in the original French and in an English translation. The book is available for free from Project Gutenberg with a free companion audio book. The book has been adapted as several motion pictures. Some of them have set up Fogg and Passepartout travelling a leg of the journey in a hot air balloon. While balloons were well known in , and Jules Verne described them in other books, the original novel lets Fogg dismiss balloons as useless for travel.

Since the novel was first published, people have been trying to recreate the main characters' adventurous journey. Countless others have followed in their footsteps; the starting point and exact list of cities visited varies between travellers. While trans-oceanic and trans-continental overland journeys have diminished with the growth of air travel , travel round the world overland remains possible. One may see much which would be missed if flying over countries instead of visiting them.

Travellers retracing the original s voyage proposal in the modern era will find that much has changed; overland travel times have been slashed by more than half as diesel and electrified rail has replaced twenty mile-per-hour steam trains, while the number of ocean-going passenger vessels has greatly diminished as air travel has taken much of the trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific passenger volume.

While one Cunard passenger liner still plies the seas, most passenger ship travel is by cruise ships designed as entertainment rather than as the backbone of an efficient transport system. Departures are less frequent and the entire round-the-world overland journey may need to be structured to accommodate which sea crossings are available on which days; many only run seasonally or infrequently. On some crossings, freighter travel might be an option if there is no passenger ship, but the number of spaces on these vessels is limited; a private ocean-going vessel such as a yacht may also be an option.

The "world cruise" offered usually as a once-a-year tour by cruise ship lines cannot be completed in eighty days as it's designed for sightseeing; it takes a hopelessly indirect route, calls in every port, and stops for a day or two to allow the traveller to tour each city.

Certainly no replacement for the historic ocean liner , which was built for speed. By the time the passenger returns home, days or so would have passed and any bets or wagers on the rapidity of this seemingly-mighty vessel would have been lost more than a month ago. Phileas Fogg would not be impressed. Passport and visa restrictions are not to be neglected, especially as overland travel requires entering a long list of multiple nations instead of merely flying over them.

The days of passports claiming "An Australian or Canadian, or whichever realm citizen is a British subject" and that claim being largely respected throughout a vast Britannic Empire are long gone; every country applies its own arbitrary restrictions to the global traveller. A few points under British control in the depicted era are no longer part of the empire or Commonwealth; the Suez Canal is now controlled by Egypt , the political situation in much of the Middle East and Central Asia leaves much to be desired, and Hong Kong is now under the control of China.

In addition to that, visa procedures often differ by port of entry and those for overland or ship entry tend to be harder than those for entry via air. While fitting a global circumnavigation into an eighty-day schedule is trivial with round the world flights , fitting an entirely-overland journey into this time frame is a challenge; while aviation has greatly reduced travel times, it has also all but ended the tradition of the great liners which once competed for the fastest ocean crossing times by sea.

There is still regular transatlantic service which will cost you , but trans-Pacific services are virtually non-existent and require probably the biggest amount of advance planning. Select your sea crossings first; scheduling of overland portions needed to reach the docks should then fall into place.

Once you have an itinerary and budget, start looking for individual-country visas. Fogg travels from The novel describes this leg indirectly and without detail, through a laconic quote from Fogg's journal. Verne might have implied that Europe was the easiest continent to traverse. This remains possible; in the modern era one may take Eurostar from St.

Pancras in London to Paris, then trains through Munich and Bologna to Brindisi in southeastern Italy , 29 hours total.

While various proposals for a Channel Tunnel had been made as early as , no one had attempted to build one; an —82 attempt was abandoned after the first mile. Fogg would therefore almost certainly have crossed the English Channel by boat.

A more authentic way to replicate this route would thus be to take a train from London to Dover , cross the English channel to Calais by ferry, then catch a train onwards to Paris from Calais. You can board a Frecciarossa high-speed train in Turin that takes you to Brindisi.

Fogg takes the Mongolia , which arrives at In Suez, a Scotland Yard detective named Fix — who has been sent out from London in pursuit of a bank robber — notes that Fogg fits the description, so he follows them on the rest of the journey. This may be difficult to replicate as written, as Somali piracy disrupted sea traffic entering the Gulf of Aden from to Sailing on a freight ship or on a cruise may be possible.

Otherwise it's going to be hard, time-consuming, expensive, bureaucratic and dangerous if you want to duplicate this leg as closely as possible. Additionally, because of Yemen's on-going civil war, stopping off in Aden is very dangerous and strongly discouraged as of Sep Cruise lines no long ply the route from Europe to Alexandria , so you will have to go either via Malta to Tunisia or via Greece or Cyprus to Israel though it's a bad idea to get an Israeli stamp in your passport , unless you have more than one and then travel overland to Egypt.

Continue overland down the Red Sea coast at least to Eritrea from where you can get a ferry across the Red Sea to Jeddah —though for this route you would have to convince the Saudi authorities to give you a visa. Another alternative, then, would be travelling down to Djibouti and cross over to Yemen , one of the world's most dangerous countries.

It would be fun! View all 10 comments. Jul 12, Ahmed Ejaz rated it liked it Shelves: , full-lengths. But she made me to read this… Well, this book was good. Really good. The reward of winning is 20, pounds which is a huge amount considering it in those days. He, with his servant, goes to this voyage.

But the problem is; in those days, there happens a huge robbery in the bank. And the description of the robber matches with Mr. So that, Detective Fix is after him during this tour. She gave me the spoiler and I was always waiting for it… BUT that never came!!

Seems like movie is different than this book. I would have enjoyed it a lot if I was a classic reader. View all 13 comments. Sep 13, Lyn rated it liked it. Around the World in Eighty Days was first published by Jules Verne in , and was introduced to an adoring public as monthly installments. Each chapter is thus seen as connected but with its own hooks and cliffhangers. The character of Phileas Fogg has become a stoic archetype for too cool operators in books to come in several genres.

This is fast moving and fun, still a good read over a hundred years later. One very interesting aspect of the narrative was the portrait of the American west in Around the World in Eighty Days was first published by Jules Verne in , and was introduced to an adoring public as monthly installments.

One very interesting aspect of the narrative was the portrait of the American west in the s from a European perspective. View all 11 comments. Aug 02, Baba rated it did not like it Shelves: bored-out-of-my-mind , classroom-boredom-par-excellence , one-star-reads.

A couple days ago my son and I were talking about boring classroom reading material. This reminded me that I never rated this glorious piece of classic literature.

How anyone would insist that students had to mandatorily read it in the 80s is beyond me, let alone in the 21st century. A couple years ago, when my son came home with that little paperback edition and whined about how incredibly uninteresting this "gem" is, I calmed him down by saying 1 I-hated-ityears-ago-and-still-hate-it star.

A couple years ago, when my son came home with that little paperback edition and whined about how incredibly uninteresting this "gem" is, I calmed him down by saying that I felt for him because it bored me to tears back in the 80s.

Yes, I have no scruples to say that I hated it. View all 21 comments. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I usually prefer long books with lots of details and drawn-out adventures, but once in a while it's nice to read a shorter story where lots of things happen. This is the third book by Jules Verne I've read and I loved all three of them.

The story just brought me a lot of joy and it was fun to read it. His way of storytelling is simply amazing and ahead of his time. There isn't a lot I can say, it's just a nice little fun book to read in-between. I definitely recom I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I definitely recommend it! Jan 11, David Sasaki rated it did not like it. Whether or not you've read the novel or watched the movie, Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days is so embedded in Western culture that just about everyone knows the basic plot premise: wealthy and reticent Englishman Phileas Fogg makes gentlemanly bet with his chums that he can travel around the world in 80 days and then sets off with his temperamental French servant to do just that.

The idea for the story came from the actual journey of eccentric Bostonian George Francis Train. Who lik Whether or not you've read the novel or watched the movie, Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days is so embedded in Western culture that just about everyone knows the basic plot premise: wealthy and reticent Englishman Phileas Fogg makes gentlemanly bet with his chums that he can travel around the world in 80 days and then sets off with his temperamental French servant to do just that.

What I hadn't expected of Verne's novel is that it is such a blatant reminder of how far we've come in the last years since colonialist superiority was treated as unquestioned fact: "The steamer passed along near the shores, but the savage Papuans, who are in the lowest scale of humanity, but are not, as has been asserted, cannibals, did not make their appearance. It's also clear that, at the time of writing the novel, Verne was an unabashed Anglophile.

Not only is the book a celebration of the British empire at its peak, but Verne is constantly praising Fogg's alleged English qualities honor, stoicism, courage and jabbing at his servent Passepartout's Frenchness temperamental, impetuous, chatty.

What I found fascinating about Around the World in 80 Days has nothing to do with the book itself, but rather how Jules Verne wrote it. When he was a young boy, according to accounts of relatives , he ran away from home and attempted to sail out to sea to follow the adventures of Robinson Crusoe.

Having failed, he promised his mother that "henceforth I will travel only in dream. Rather he would surround himself with books and research the landscapes of his novels without ever setting foot there himself. If you have even the most remote interest in African issues then you probably follow Ethan's blog.

He is incredibly talented at consuming and digesting large volumes of information about a complicated topic and then presenting that information in an easy-to-follow narrative that doesn't simplify its complexity.

But in all my years of following Ethan's blog I think he's only traveled to Africa for two short conference-related trips. The obvious difference between Ethan and Jules apart from the fact that Ethan is both nicer and more empathetic is the number of research and communication tools that we now have at our disposal.

Verne had his local library, letters, and the telegraph. Today, apart from being able to glimpse the front pages of hundreds of newspapers from around the world at the Newseum , we are also able to learn about the world around us in real time thanks to Global Voices , Facebook , YouTube , Twitter , and Google Earth. What's more, we can - and often do - develop real and meaningful friendships from our interactions on those sites.

Still, there is something about being on the ground, there in person, that allows you to soak in and understand new lands, cultures, and customs in a way that even the most advanced virtual worlds could never rival. I doubt that Ethan would be such an impassioned Africaphile were it not for his time spent in Ghana.

And Joi is right , if he really wants to understand the Middle East, the best thing to do is move there. Though mentioning United Arab Emirates' tax benefits would have been a brave gesture of sincerity.

I do understand that increased international travel is neither good for our environment nor our budgets. But, done responsibly, it is good for humanity. The more we experience other cultures the more we understand about ourselves and our place in the world.

Which is why I wholly support initiatives like Abby Falik's Global Citizen Year fellowship program which hopefully won't be bogged down by the bureaucracy, legacy, and politics of Peace Corps. As Michael Naimark notes in a smart essay on the 80plus1 website , Verne's novel celebrated the technological advances of the industrial era.

Thanks to the steam engine, railways, and global colonialism, it was possible for the first time to circumnavigate the globe in just 80 days. Today we're still at the dawn of a new era of technological advances: pervasive networked and structured data.

These tools will lead to a new era of exploration. There are no longer new lands, tribes, and cities to discover. Just by starting up Google Earth we can cast our eyes on every hidden corner of the world. The curiosity that inspires exploration, however, remains. Something keeps Matt traveling and dancing around the world and keeps Nicholas daydreaming about his next trip to Guyana or Venezuela or Argentina. Something inspired this Chinese blogger to travel around the world in days. But exploration today isn't about discovering the so-called undiscovered.

It's about understanding what has been there all along. View all 25 comments. May 21, Charity rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: People who love grand adventures. Shelves: books. I finished Around the World in 80 Days today and it was even better than I remembered from my childhood.

Admittedly, the version I had read as a child was the Great Illustrated Classics edition that was, unfortunately, abridged. I felt that a reading of the unabridged classic was long overdue. Shockingly enough, I still remembered the ending 20 years later. Just the task Phileas Fogg faces in traveling the world in 80 days in the 19th century and the obstacles that pop up to delay his travels w I finished Around the World in 80 Days today and it was even better than I remembered from my childhood.

Just the task Phileas Fogg faces in traveling the world in 80 days in the 19th century and the obstacles that pop up to delay his travels would make for a fabulous story, but the element of a cat-and-mouse chase really puts this book over the top! I highly recommend it for anyone who loves grand adventure stories. I can see why Jules Verne is touted as one of the finest French authors. He is deserving of all accolades! Jun 30, Bradley rated it really liked it Shelves: shelf , steampunk.

The original steampunk adventure! Written while it was still called modern! Jules Verne knows how to write a fast-paced adventure with French tomfoolery and English sprats.

You had to be there. And you also have to enjoy a period piece, too! But that's not all, folks The original steampunk adventure! But that's not all, folks! The Indian Princess gets saved by the Bully Englishman! Aw www I've almost got a picture in my head of Tarzan swinging Jane through the jungle. Light fun, adventure, theft, mistaken identity, and even a moral to tuck in the end of the story to send us off to dreamland.

Sep 13, Katie Lumsden rated it it was amazing. I really enjoyed this - a fun and interesting read, and more heartfelt than I expected. It's quite interesting to see a French take on 19th century Englishness, and a 19th century perspective on the world. Sep 04, Luffy rated it liked it.

Have been reading this in French, and I have to say, Verne's book gained in translation, instead of having lost, if you get my drift. This was a reread. It held up well, and in the lack of otherwise, I must credit the pleasurable, and ingenious denouement to Jules Verne. The book must have looked drop dead fresh, pardon the oxymoron, in its debut year.

As you see, the English language has borrowed a lot from the French. It has gained in richness for that. Nov 08, Lea rated it it was amazing Shelves: fantasy , fiction , classic , owned.

This book brings so much childhood memories back. My dad just to read aloud and retell over and over again Jules Verne 's stories and I'm so grateful for that. It ignited my passion for reading a long time ago, as I learned for the first time that I can travel around the world through books and stories, laying in the warm room.

I can still remember the vivid images of my imagination that I had as a child listening to this story and feelings will never fade, I still felt quite emotional rereading This book brings so much childhood memories back. I can still remember the vivid images of my imagination that I had as a child listening to this story and feelings will never fade, I still felt quite emotional rereading this story and joining Mr.

Fogg on his journey. Thank you, dad, and that you Mr. Verne for introducing me to the magical world of literature. It had been a long time since I hadn't read an adventure by Jules Verne. It is, of course, to place in the historical context of the 19th century. The adventures of Phileas Fogg intends to introduce readers to the diversity of the world.

It was. Also, it seems to show the British power and hegemony, which was then the first world power and discovering the new means of transport. This fact made it possible to quickly travel worldwide, such as the steam navy or the transcontinental railways.

We do It had been a long time since I hadn't read an adventure by Jules Verne. We do not get bored for a second, and the adventures of our companions are still as hectic a century and a half later. Jules Verne remains a staple of the adventure novel.

View 2 comments. Aug 21, Apatt rated it really liked it. More like five days for me really, though even that is too long for a pages book. Yes, that is a silly intro but what I meant is that while listening to the book I often felt transported along with Phileas Fogg and crew.

This is my first Jules Verne book, normally I prefer to read books in the original language they are written in because with translated books there is always an added layer between the translator and t More like five days for me really, though even that is too long for a pages book.

This is my first Jules Verne book, normally I prefer to read books in the original language they are written in because with translated books there is always an added layer between the translator and the original text. Still, if I avoid reading translated novels altogether I would have missed out on some great literature. I was immediately taken by the chummy tone of the narrative. He is accompanied by Passepartout, along the way they pick up a couple of characters to form an entourage and they go through several hair-raising adventures.

The book is pretty much a romp from beginning to end, necessarily moving at breakneck speed as time is obviously limited and the page count is quite modest. One thing that surprises me is that Verne, a French author chooses an Englishman for his hero and Passepartout, a Frenchman, as his bumbling sidekick.

Was Jules Verne an Anglophile? Let me know in the comments please. Of the other main characters, the Indian girl Aouda, who Fogg and Passepartout rescue from some zealot villains, seems to have very little in the way of agency.

Coming back to Fogg himself, he starts off being interestingly enigmatic and unflappable but by the end of the book seems like a one note character. Jules Verne is my kind of guy! My thanks to Lyn, an excellent GR friend and reviewer, whose review prompted me to read this book.

View all 20 comments. The best adventure work till date! Review to follow. View all 3 comments. Oh this book is everything! This is so much more than I expected! I love Trip Fiction and I'm not sure if this is the first of the genre but it certainly has to be one of the first and it's so much more than Trip Fiction.

It also has romance, adventure and police procedural genres all rolled in. Its everything. I enjoyed this so much, my only regret is that this is not a full length novel. In true novella style there are parts where the narrator says something along the lines of, and once they arr Oh this book is everything!

The second part of their journey after crossing over to America, where they go by train, is also filled with adventures and unexpected events. Eventually, there is next to no chance that they will arrive in London on time. The novel was written at a time where circumnavigating the world had become easier than ever before, due to the completion of the Suez Canal and an improved railway system through America, called the First Transcontinental Railroad. Numerous articles and travel reports of people, who had travelled around the world, were published around Jules Verne thus used stories he had read in news papers and turned them into one of the most popular adventure novels of all time.

Fogg does not travel to India, China or America in order to get to know the countries or to deal with their cultures. Instead, he is merely set on getting to the other end of the world and back as quickly as possible.

That way, the attitude of the rich British colonist becomes apparent.