Around the World in 80 Days

Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: Om Books International
ISBN: 9380070918
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 239

Book Description
A fastidious Englishman, Phileas Fogg, puts his life's savings at stake, claiming he can travel around the world in just eighty days. Thus begins his fantastic journey, full of excitement and a great deal of risk. Phileas Fogg and his servant, Passepartout visit many foreign lands, exotic and beautiful. Amidst all the excitement is a case of mistaken identity, which has a Scotland Yard detective hot at their heels! Will Phileas Fogg lose the bet? Will he be put behind bars for robbing a bank? Read on to find out.

Around the World in Eighty Days

Author: Jules Verne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190

Book Description

Around the World in 80 Days

Author: Michael Palin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voyages around the world
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
In the autumn of 1988, Michael Palin sets out from the Reform Club to circumnavigate the world, following the route taken by Phileas Fogg 115 years earlier.

The Tour of the World in Eighty Days

Author: Jules Verne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342

Book Description

Great Illustrated Classics

Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Classics
ISBN: 9781577655336
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The Pearson Education Library Collection offers you over 1200 fiction, nonfiction, classic, adapted classic, illustrated classic, short stories, biographies, special anthologies, atlases, visual dictionaries, history trade, animal, sports titles and more

Liz and Nellie

Author: Shonna Slayton
Publisher: Amaretto Press
ISBN: 0997449918
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
Victorian Race Around the World: Two women reporters try to beat Jules Verne's record. New York City, November 14, 1889. Young newspaper reporter Nellie Bly sets sail on the Augusta Victoria for a trip around the world. She plans to beat Jules Verne's fictional record from the novel Around the World in Eighty Days. She thinks she can circumnavigate the globe in under seventy-five days, and prove that a woman can do what no man has even tried. Hours later, and unbeknownst to Nellie, another writer, Elizabeth Bisland boards a train going in the opposite direction attempting to beat Nellie back to New York. Elizabeth is a reluctant player in this high-stakes publicity stunt, but financial needs outweigh her pride. Neither woman is prepared for what will happen on this trip, or how the race will change her. This fascinating novel covers these historical topics and more: - early women reporters - travel during Victorian times - includes Nellie Bly's visit with Jules Verne, himself

Around the World in 80 Days 6-Pack

Author:
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 1644915537
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35

Book Description
Adapted from the classic book by Jules Verne, this adventure fiction book retells the classic story, Around the World in Eighty Days. Phileas Fogg likes things done by the clock. And he expects things to go like clockwork when he accepts a wager to travel around the world in 80 days. Can Fogg return to England in time, or will he lose his fortune in the effort? This 32-page illustrated chapter book will appeal to kids who enjoy imaginative retellings of classic novels.

Carry the One

Author: Carol Anshaw
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451656939
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278

Book Description
When a car of inebriated guests from Carmen's wedding hits and kills a girl on a country road, Carmen and the people involved in the accident connect, disconnect, and reconnect throughout twenty-five subsequent years of marriage, parenthood, holidays, and tragedies.

Around the World in 80 Days

Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781402736896
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 170

Book Description
In 1872, English gentleman Phileas Fogg has many adventures as he tries to win a bet that he can travel around the world in eighty days.

Eighty Days

Author: Matthew Goodman
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN: 0345527267
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481

Book Description
Documents the 1889 competition between feminist journalist Nellie Bly and Cosmopolitan reporter Elizabeth Bishop to beat Jules Verne's record and each other in a round-the-globe race, offering insight into their respective daunting challenges as recorded in their reports sent back home. 50,000 first printing.