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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.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

• Full title: Around the World in 80 Days / Five Weeks in a Balloon
• Author: Jules Verne
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384
• EAN: 9781853260902
• ISBN: 1853260908
• ID: 04298208
• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
• Weight: 252 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 126 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. February 1994

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