His stories were of fantastic adventures with a degree of realism in the descriptions of events and scientific content - he was a pioneer of science fiction. Phileas Fogg, an enigmatic bachelor living in London makes a gentleman’s bet with some friends from his club and sets off on an 80 day adventure. 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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In 2009, twelve celebrities performed a relay version of the journey for the BBC Children in Need charity appeal. Since Fogg fits the vague description Scotland Yard was given of Strand, Detective Fix mistakes Fogg for the criminal. Fix is even more motivated by the reward offered for catching Fogg—2,000 pounds and 5 percent of the recovered money.It ignited my passion for reading a long time ago, as I learned for the first time that I can travel around the world through books and stories, laying in the warm room. Phileas Fogg, an eccentric English gentleman who wagers with his 5 equally idle noblemen friends for 20000 pounds that he'd be able to go around the world within 80 days, Passerportout, his faithful French servant whom he hired barely a day before the wager, and whose hopes of a sedentary life in a sedate English countryhouse was shattered by his eccentric master's wager, and Aouda, a Parsee lady from India whom they saved from being immolated in the fire. Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men! Which is why I wholly support initiatives like Abby Falik's Global Citizen Year fellowship program (which hopefully won't be bogged down by the bureaucracy, legacy, and politics of Peace Corps).

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The amusingly unflappable Fogg has a great foil in Passepartout (sounds like “passport two” in the audio).His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel was wildly successful, producing many brilliant novels in the burgeoning genre of science fiction: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Centre of the Earth and Around the World in 80 Days, among others. The date of first installment of the serial publication was the same date as the newspaper – October 2, 1872. Like Jules Verne’s biography, his tales have been elaborated upon but that doesn’t make them any less intriguing or entertaining. This childhood feat of derring-do may have really happened, but this tale is thought to be largely embroidered upon by his biographer, his niece Marguerite.

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TO CANCEL YOUR SUBSCRIPTION AND AVOID BEING CHARGED, YOU MUST CANCEL BEFORE THE END OF THE FREE TRIAL PERIOD. Stephen Kern, The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918: With a New Preface Archived 26 July 2020 at the Wayback Machine, Harvard University Press (2003) - Google Books pg. Along the way, Phileas bribes people to rush their trip, they rescue a woman about to be sacrificed, ride elephants and miss their boats. Today we're still at the dawn of a new era of technological advances: pervasive networked and structured data.Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passepartout. He became a keen sailor, who enjoyed long voyages on his own steam-powered yacht – complete with a ten-strong crew. The book takes you through many countries and cultures, and gives you a view of the world during that time period. Elsewhere, with a frisson of up-to-date alarm, he notices that the storytellers in Boccaccio’s Decameron have quit Florence to escape a pestilence, while the stricken gypsy in García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude contracts pellagra in Persia, scurvy in Malaya, leprosy in Alexandria, beriberi in Japan and the Black Death in Madagascar. In particular, three technological breakthroughs occurred in 1869–1870 that made a tourist-like around-the-world journey possible for the first time: the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in America (1869), the opening of the Suez Canal (1869), and the linking of the Indian railways across the sub-continent (1870).