Numerous articles and travel reports of people, who had travelled around the world, were published around 1870. The novel was written at a time where circumnavigating the world had become easier than ever before, due to the completion of the Suez Canal and an improved railway system through America, called the First Transcontinental Railroad. But in the case of “Around the World in Eighty Days” he did not actually have to come up with any new inventions or scenarios. Nowadays, Jules Verne (1828-1905) is often called the “Father of Science Fiction”. Eventually, there is next to no chance that they will arrive in London on time. The second part of their journey after crossing over to America, where they go by train, is also filled with adventures and unexpected events. They have to rescue her from a ritual sacrifice. In India, the two men also get a female travel companion named Aouda. Because of a mistaken identity, he thinks that Fogg has robbed a bank in London. Fogg and Passepartout are followed by an English detective named Mr. Soon however, complications start to arise. Their trip leads them through the Suez Canal, to India and then to China and Japan via ship. He starts his journey on the same evening, accompanied by his servant Passepartout. The wager is half his fortune: 20,000 pounds sterling, which would roughly amount to two million pounds sterling today.
Phileas Fogg, a rich gentleman, makes a bet against his friends at the Reform Club that he will be able to go around the world in eighty days. The story takes place in London at the beginning of the 1870s. After all, it is far more than just a novel about a race around the world. But actually, it is truly worth picking up this popular work by the French author Jules Verne and reading it yourself. The adventure novel “Around the World in Eighty Days” (1873) is one of these books, which everyone thinks they know without ever reading them.
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