Around the World in 80 Days and From the Earth to the Moon

Verne, Jules

ISBN 10: 1582791821 / ISBN 13: 9781582791821

Published by Trident Press International, Naples FL, 2001

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Wraps have light edgewear, spine unbent. Pages are clean, text is unmarked. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Seller Inventory # 303150A

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Around the World in 80 Days and From the Earth to the Moon
• Publisher: Trident Press International, Naples FL
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1582791821
• ISBN 13: 9781582791821
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

The story starts in London on Tuesday, October 1, 1872. Fogg is a rich English gentleman living in solitude. Despite his wealth, Fogg lives a modest life with habits carried out with mathematical precision. Very little can be said about his social life other than that he is a member of the Reform Club. Having dismissed his former valet, James Foster, for bringing him shaving water at 84 °F (29 °C) instead of 86 °F (30 °C), Fogg hires a Frenchman by the name of Jean Passepartout as a replacement. At the Reform Club, Fogg gets involved in an argument over an article in The Daily Telegraph stating that with the opening of a new railway section in India, it is now possible to travel around the world in 80 days. He accepts a wager for £20,000 (equal to about £1.6 million today) from his fellow club members, which he will receive if he makes it around the world in 80 days. Accompanied by Passepartout, he leaves London by train at 8:45 P.M. on Wednesday, October 2, 1872, and is due back at the Reform Club at the same time 80 days later, Saturday, December 21, 1872.