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  1. www.vjv.comJules Verne | Small Group Tours Worldwide | Escorted Tours

    2024 Tour Inspiration. We are delighted to offer tours and cruises travelling in 2024, offering a range of experiences including river cruises, inspiring cultural heritage, breathtaking landscapes and rewarding itineraries.

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    Find out the latest dates for small group tours and cruises travelling in 2024 with Jules Verne, a leading tour operator. Explore ancient cities, river cruises, cultural heritage and more with Jules Verne.

  3. www.britannica.com › biography › Jules-VerneJules Verne | Biography & Facts | Britannica

    May 13, 2024 · Did Jules Verne travel around the world? Jules Verne did not travel around the world like the characters in Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). However, he visited America on board the Great Eastern in 1867, and he sailed around Europe on yachts he owned.

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  5. www.britannica.com › topic › Around-the-World-inAround the World in Eighty Days | Summary & Facts | Britannica

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    Around the World in Eighty Days, travel adventure novel by French author Jules Verne, published serially in 1872 in Le Temps and in book form in 1873. The work tells the story of the unflappable Phileas Fogg’s trip around the world, accompanied by his emotional valet, Passepartout, to win a bet. It was the most popular of Verne’s Voyages extraordin...

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    Phileas Fogg, a London gentleman of meticulous and unchanging habits, hires as his valet Jean Passepartout, a Frenchman who has had a variety of jobs, including circus performer, but now seeks a tranquil life. After reading in The Daily Telegraph that a new railroad in India has made it theoretically possible to travel around the world in 80 days, Fogg bets his fellow members at the Reform Club that he will make that journey in 80 days or less; the wager is for the princely sum of £20,000 (half his fortune). Leaving that night, Fogg and a nonplussed Passepartout board a train bound for Dover and Calais to begin their journey.

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    Shortly before Fogg’s departure, someone resembling him had robbed a bank, and Fogg’s sudden exit leads Scotland Yard to believe that he was the bank robber. Accordingly, a detective, Mr. Fix, is sent to Suez, in British-ruled Egypt, to await the steamer Mongolia, on which Fogg and Passepartout are traveling. Fix befriends Passpartout, and, after learning that they will take the steamer to Bombay, he buys a ticket and joins them. The Mongolia reaches Bombay before the arrival of an arrest warrant, however. During the few hours before their planned departure for Calcutta on the Great India Peninsula Railway, Passepartout visits a Hindu temple on Malabar Hill, unaware that Christians are forbidden to enter and that shoes are not to be worn inside. He is beaten by enraged priests and barely makes it to the train station on time.

    The train travels through India until stopping at the village of Kholby, where Fogg learns that, contrary to what was reported in the British press, the railroad is 50 miles (81 km) short of completion, and passengers are required to find their own way to Allahabad to resume the train trip. Fogg purchases an elephant and hires a Parsi man as elephant driver and guide. The elephant-borne party later encounters a group of people preparing for an act of suttee—the immolation of a widow on her husband’s funeral pyre. Fogg decides that they must rescue the young widow. Passepartout disguises himself as the body of the late rajah, and, as soon as the pyre is lit, he springs up and seizes the widow. The party then flees before the ruse is discovered. They reach the railroad station in Allahabad and continue on their journey.

    In Calcutta, however, Fogg and Passepartout are arrested and sentenced to prison because of Passepartout’s incursion into the Malabar Hill temple in Bombay. An unperturbed Fogg pays bail for them, and, accompanied by the widow, Aouda, they board a steamer bound for Hong Kong. Fix, who had hoped the sentences would keep them in Calcutta long enough for the warrant to arrive, joins them.

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    The richness and poetry of Around the World in Eighty Days, together with the lively narrative, won Verne worldwide renown and was a fantastic success for the times, setting new sales records, with translations in English, Russian, Italian, and Spanish appearing soon after it was published in book form. An 1874 stage version, written by Verne and F...

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  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Around_the_World_in_EightyAround the World in Eighty Days - Wikipedia

    Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in French in 1872. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a wager of £20,000 (equivalent to £ ...

  7. www.biography.com › authors-writers › jules-verneJules Verne - Novels, Quotes & Facts - Biography

    Apr 2, 2014 · Learn about the life and works of Jules Verne, the French author who pioneered science fiction and wrote about travel and adventure. Discover how his novels such as Around the World in Eighty Days and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea shaped the genre and influenced the world.

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    Around the World in Eighty Days. Jules Verne, Brian W. Aldiss (Introduction), Michael Glencross (Translator, Annotations) 3.94. 249,851 ratings11,257 reviews. One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days.

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