Around the World in Eighty Days
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Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours) is a novel by Jules Verne, described contemporaneously as taking place in the last quarter of 1872, as the historical British Empire on which "the sun never sets" was nearing its peak. The story describes Phileas Fogg of London and his French valet Jean Passepartout circumnavigating the world in 80 days in an effort to win a £20,000 wager—a small fortune in that era. The itinerary can, with some difficulty and deviations, be re-created today.
UnderstandMonsieur is going to leave home?Yes, returned Phileas Fogg. We are going round the world.
PrepareTravellers retracing the original 1870s voyage proposal in the modern era will find that much has changed; overland travel times have been slashed by more than half as diesel and electrified rail has replaced twenty…
The original itineraryPhileas Fogg and Passepartout started out in London.
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- Guide text adapted from the Wikivoyage article "Around the World in Eighty Days" by its contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read on Wikivoyage · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo: Reform Club. Upper level of the saloon. From London Interiors (1841).jpg, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons