![]() Ideal for anyone who wants to read a great work for the first time or rediscover an old favorite, these new editions open the door to literature's most unforgettable characters and beloved worlds. Jim Hodges Productions and Made for Success Studios brings you timeless works from the masters of storytelling. Inspired by Jules Verne's own sea travels and his fascination with circumnavigating the globe, the avid dreamer's picaresque voyage inspired generations of adventurers who were eager to best Verne's challenge-from nineteenth-century journalist Nellie Bly to Monty Python's Michael Palin. Fetching his newly appointed French valet, Fogg embarks on a fabulous journey across land and sea-by steamer, rail, and elephant-to win the bet of a lifetime. ![]() Pragmatic gambler Phileas Fogg has made a gentlemanly wager to the members of his exclusive club: that he can circle the world in just eighty days, right down to the minute. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.Ĭompact Disc. Will they make it in time? A new edition of the classic tale of a race against the clock, with 70 original illustrations by Robert Ingpen. The ill-assorted but determined trio have to use all of their ingenuity and some remarkable vehicles to race back to London. But Phileas Fogg is above all a gentleman, and stopping to save the life of a beautiful young widow may have cost him his fortune. Phileas Fogg, a gentleman of precision and predictability, and his manservant, the ever resourceful Passepartout, ride through India on an elephant, sail the South China Sea in the teeth of a typhoon, and cross the snow-covered plains of the Wild West in order to fulfill a wager that the journey can be completed in just 80 days. ![]() Although we live in an age when round-the-world travel is possible in hours rather than weeks, Jules Verne's tale of a race against the clock has never lost its power to thrill. ![]()
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