Around the World in Eighty Days

The book tells the story of Phileas Fogg, an English gentleman, who makes a fantastic trip as a bet. His adventures, with his French manservant Passepartout, by railway, steamship and elephant, see him travel around the world pursued relentlessly by a detective who mistakes him for a notorious criminal.

Auteur

Jules Verne was born in Nantes, France in 1828. He studied and practiced law for some years before he wrote his first adventure story in Paris in 1862. From that time he wrote almost at the rate of a novel a year until his death in 1905.