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Around the World in Eighty Days And Five Weeks in a Balloon

Name: Around the World in Eighty Days
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Author: Jules Verne

by Jules Verne

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Wordsworth Editions Ltd

Classics English

Around the World in Eighty Days And Five Weeks in a Balloon

by Jules Verne

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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.

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ISBN13: 9781853260902

Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1997