Around the World in Eighty Days: 5 Weeks in a Balloon (Wordsworth Classics)

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Book Summary

Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) relates the hair-raising journey made as a wager by the Victorian gentleman Phileas Fogg, who succeeds – but only just! – in circling the globe within eighty days. The dour Fogg’s obsession with his timetable is complemented by the dynamism and versatility of his French manservant, Passepartout, whose talent for getting into scrapes brings colour and suspense to the race against time. Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863) was Verne’s first novel. It documents an apocryphal jaunt across the continent of Africa in a hydrogen balloon designed by the omniscient, imperturbable and ever capable Dr Fergusson, the prototype of the Vernian adventurer.

Language: English
Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd (1997)
ISBN-10: 1853260908
ISBN-13: 9781853260902
Genre: Classics
Size: 12.6 cm x 19.6 cm
Shipping Weight: 53 grams
Condition: New

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Book Summary

Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) relates the hair-raising journey made as a wager by the Victorian gentleman Phileas Fogg, who succeeds – but only just! – in circling the globe within eighty days. The dour Fogg’s obsession with his timetable is complemented by the dynamism and versatility of his French manservant, Passepartout, whose talent for getting into scrapes brings colour and suspense to the race against time. Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863) was Verne’s first novel. It documents an apocryphal jaunt across the continent of Africa in a hydrogen balloon designed by the omniscient, imperturbable and ever capable Dr Fergusson, the prototype of the Vernian adventurer.

Language: English
Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd (1997)
ISBN-10: 1853260908
ISBN-13: 9781853260902
Genre: Classics
Size: 12.6 cm x 19.6 cm
Shipping Weight: 53 grams
Condition: New

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