In March of 1870 Jules Verne read a timetable published in the Magasin pittoresque that showed how a determined and tireless person could travel, on regularly scheduled ships and trains, around the world in eighty days. Yes, he thought, another detailed example of how technology is rapidly making the world a smaller and more familiar place. Another example of how we cart--yes, even why we must learn to understand and love all the peoples of the Earth. How to make a dramatic adventure out of it, so ordinary people could enjoy understanding? Where would the tireless determination, the need to make it within eighty days, come from? He had already imagined the eventual invention of airplanes, even interplanetary travel, but this was something here and now,something even the most skeptical could be made to see:change. How to do it?

Phileas Fogg bet his entire fortune that he could cross the Nineteenth Century Earth—with no plans, no special arrangements, an no air travel—in exactly eighty days. Any delay, any breakdown, any missed connection, and Fogg would lose--everything.

Within hours, he was off. Across Europe, Arabia,India, China, Japan, and the untamed vastness of America. On train, ship, small boat, sled, and elephantback. Through jungles, mountains,typhoons, blizzards, corrupt rulers, and blood-maddened fanatics. Saving a princess, fighting duels, battling savages...

And chased by a relentless bounty hunter who—convinced Fogg was a fleeing bank robber—meant to stop him.., at any cost!

The Life of Jules Veme

Foreword

1. In which Phileas Fogg and Passe~rtout accept each other, the one as master, the other as man

2. In which Passepartout is convinced that he has at last found his ideal

3. In which a conversation takes place which seems likely to cost Phileas Fogg dear

4. In which Phileas Fogg astounds Passepartout, his servant

5. In which a new species of funds, unknown to the moneyed men, appears on 'Change

6. In which Fix, the detective, betrays a very natural impatience

7. Which once more demonstrates the uselessness of passports as aids to detectives

8. In which Passepartout talks rather more, per- haps, than is prudent

9. In which the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean prove propitious to the designs of Phileas Fogg

10. In which Passepartout is only too glad to get off with the loss of his shoes

11. In which Phileas Fogg secures a curious means of conveyance at a fabulous price

12. In which Phileas Fogg and his companions venture across the Indian forests, and what ensued

13. In which Passeportout receives a new proof that fortune favours the brave

14. In which Phileas Fogg descends the whole length of the beautiful valley of the Ganges without ever thinking of seeing it

15. In which the bag of bank-notes disgorges some thousands of pounds more

16. In which Fix does not seem to understand in the least what is said to him

17. Showing what happened on the voyage from Singapore to Hong Kong

18. In which Phileas Fogg, Passepartout, and Fix go each about his business

19. In which Passepartout takes a too great interest in his master, and what comes of it

20. In which Fix comes face to face with Phileas Fogg

21. In which the master of the "Tankadere" runs great risk of losing a reward of two hundred pounds

22. In which Passepartout finds out that, even at the antipodes, it is convenient to have some money in one's pocket

23. In which Passepartout's nose becomes outrage-ously long

24. During which Mr. Fogg and party cross the Pacific Ocean

25. In which a slight, glimpse is had of San Francisco

26. In which Phileas Fogg and party travel by the Pacific Railroad

27. In which Passepartout undergoes, at a speed of twenty miles an hour, a course of Mormon history

28. In which Passepartout does not succeed in making anybody listen to reason

29. In which certain incidents are narrated which are only to be met with on American railroads

30. In which Phileas Fogg simply does his duty

31. In which Fix the detective considerably furthers the interests of Phileas Fogg

32. In which Phileas Fogg engages in a direct struggle with bad fortune

33. In which Phileas Fogg shows himself equal to the occasion

34. In which Phileas Fogg at last reaches London

35. In which Phileas Fogg does not have to repeat his orders to Passepartout twice

36. In which Phileas Fogg's name is once more at a premium on 'Change

37. In which it is shown that Phileas Fogg gained nothing by his tour around the world, unless it were happiness

Afterword