Around the World in 80 Days

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Fix is even more motivated by the reward offered for catching Fogg—2,000 pounds and 5 percent of the recovered money. A short time later, the misunderstanding is cleared up – the actual robber had been caught three days earlier in Edinburgh. Along the way they save a damsel, join a circus troop, sail through Storms, experience a violent pollical meeting, learn and reject Mormonism, all by being chased by a detective. She revealed the appalling conditions and the terrible treatment of the women held within its walls, by going undercover herself as a patient admitted to the asylum.

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When he arrived in San Francisco, he would have noticed that the local date was one day earlier than shown in his travel diary. Afterwards I instinctively felt that those books should remain in my childhood, that I might find things in them I would find ludicrous or horrible now. One October morning in 1872, Fogg fires his servant for bringing him shaving water that is two degrees too cold. And I'd just like to say, the language was a bit complicated at times, but it's lovely to read that to an 8 year old.

The book is still popular and sales were boosted at the end of the twentieth century when Michael Palin undertook the journey using only the transport that would have been available to Fogg - he was accompanied by a team of TV cameramen! It is fun because it is rife with interesting observations, factoids, themes that in Verne's day were barely in development. Phileas Fogg, an ilustration from the novel “Around the World in Eighty Days” by Jules Verne, painted by Alphonse de Neuville and or Leon Benett.

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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 adve Perhaps this is the reason why some details and characters have been freely changed for this new version. I think this book is a real classic and is a very enjoyable book to read as there is a twist in the end that would surprise many people.Other characters Fix (a stalking policeman) and Aouda (a rescued Indian damsel) are amazingly created colourful characters too. And, of course, Verne lived in a time of momentous innovation – railway routes were being laid around the world; across America and throughout India. Thus, the day he added to his clock throughout his journey would be removed upon crossing this imaginary line. I doubt that Ethan would be such an impassioned Africaphile were it not for his time spent in Ghana.