Around the World in Eighty Days

Having learnt that a new railway in India has made it theoretically possible to travel all the way around the globe in no more than eighty days, Phileas Fogg, a wealthy and fastidious London gentleman, makes a wager of £20,000 with his Reform Club associates that he can achieve this hitherto unheard-of feat, and, accompanied by his French valet Jean Passepartout, boards a train for Dover the very same evening. Pursued on their epic journey by a Scotland Yard policeman who has mistaken Fogg for a bank robber, the intrepid voyagers face a race against time as they traverse a range of exotic and sometimes hazardous landscapes and make use of any and every mode of transport available to them - including elephants - in order to achieve their goal.A huge commercial success on first publication in 1872, Jules Verne''s classic adventure story has been adapted numerous times for the stage and the screen, as well as inspiring many real-life adventurers who have sought to emulate Fogg''s audacious odyssey.>

Product details

• Authors: Jules Verne
• Assisted by: Ross Collins (Illustration), Andrew Brown (Translation)
• Publisher: Alma Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.06.2024
• EAN: 9781847499202
• ISBN: 978-1-84749-920-2
• No. of pages: 284
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 198 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Alma Junior Classics
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; JUVENILE FICTION / Classics, JUVENILE FICTION / Travel, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Stories in translation