I usually prefer long books with lots of details and drawn-out adventures, but once in a while it's nice to read a shorter story where lots of things happen.

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But have the creators of the BBC adaption also used real-life events and people to help bring Phileas Fogg and his travelling companions to the screen? The date of first installment of the serial publication was the same date as the newspaper – October 2, 1872. In fact the 80-day milestone was advertised in British and Irish newspapers the year that Verne began his book. Still, there is something about being on the ground, there in person, that allows you to soak in and understand new lands, cultures, and customs in a way that even the most advanced virtual worlds could never rival.It is fun because it is rife with interesting observations, factoids, themes that in Verne's day were barely in development. But for Damrosch, language is never just one thing, since there is always another foreign tongue to study with access to a new literature as his reward, and this multilingual scholar recognises that not all communication is verbal. The fabulously wealthy Victorian gentleman Phileas Fogg wagers his life's fortune that he can circumnavigate the globe in just eighty days.

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As Passepartout notifies a minister, he learns that he is mistaken in the date – it is not 22 December, but instead 21 December. Having dismissed his valet for bringing him shaving water at a temperature slightly lower than expected, Fogg hires Frenchman Jean Passepartout as a replacement. Fogg is an obsessive-compulsive routine loving timekeeper who bets his chums at the club that he can travel around the world in 80 days, which a newspaper said was possible - if no delays were incurred.One example would be the discussion on Sati (women had to jumped into the burning pyre of their dead husbands sacrificing their lives). It’s the story of Phileas Fogg who wages his fortune for a challenge to travel the world in just eighty days! Verne’s most successful tale has been craftily remade as a TV series and premiered on BBC on December 26, 2021 and on PBS Masterpiece on January 2, 2022.

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Mickey Mouse Works "MouseTales" segment and House of Mouse episode "Mickey and Minnie's Big Vacation", with Mickey Mouse in the role of Phileas Fogg, Goofy as Jean Passepartout, Scrooge McDuck as Lord Abermarle, and Minnie Mouse as Princess Aouda. On the evening of 2 October 1872, while at the Club, Fogg gets involved in an argument over an article in The Daily Telegraph stating that with the opening of a new railway section in India, it is now possible to travel around the world in 80 days. His trip was sponsored by a Danish newspaper and made on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Jules Verne. Verne cited an 1872 article in Nature, and Edgar Allan Poe's short story "Three Sundays in a Week" (1841), which was also based on going around the world and the difference in a day linked to a marriage at the end.He carried on writing short stories and in 1851 Verne’s first historical adventure appeared in print. Along the way, Phileas bribes people to rush their trip, they rescue a woman about to be sacrificed, ride elephants and miss their boats.

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There is this touch of kinda engaging with other cultures while travelling, but it's very colonistic and questionable/racist, and in the end it feels like Britain is somehow still the only safe, good place in the world. Fogg’s fellow members of the Reform Club had no inkling how he made his fortune or how he passed his time. Lo mejor para mi han sido las curiosidades que nos iba relatando Verne de las diferentes partes del mundo que pisaba Fogg (poco más hacía que pisarlas, desgraciadamente, tremenda momia xD), de hecho me hubiera gustado leer más sobre estos países y menos sobre la locura de cálculos matemáticos para llegar a tiempo a todo. Titled Around the World in 18 days, the serial told the story of Fogg's descendant, Phileas Fogg III, and his attempt to recreate his grandfather's journey. Thus, the day he added to his clock throughout his journey would be removed upon crossing this imaginary line.If he hasn't been present and that is just what is built up by the writing in this book I am speechless.