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Around the World in Eighty Days: 5 Weeks in a Balloon

Around the World in Eighty Days: 5 Weeks in a Balloon

Name: Around the World in Eighty Days: 5 Weeks in a Balloon
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Jules Verne
ISBN: 9781853260902

Jules Verne

05/02/1994
Wordsworth Editions Ltd

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Couverture de Around the World in Eighty Days: 5 Weeks in a Balloon par Jules Verne

Résumé

This book is with an introduction and notes by Professor Roger Cardinal. University of Kent at Canterbury. "Around the World in Eighty Days" (1873) relates the hair-raising journey made as a wager by the Victorian gentleman Phileas Fogg, who succeeds - but only just - in circling the globe within eighty days. The dour Fogg's obsession with his timetable is complemented by the dynamism and versatility of his French manservant, Passepartout, whose talent for getting into scrapes brings colour and suspense to the race against time. "Five Weeks in a Balloon" (1863) was Verne's first novel. It documents an apocryphal jaunt across the continent of Africa in a hydrogen balloon designed by the omniscient, imperturbable and ever capable Dr Fergusson, the prototype of the Vernian adventurer.