![]() The Victoriana theme continues with Williams’s equally mesmerising binding design and a series of highly inventive chapter headings. Featuring 2 classic Jules Verne stories:Around the World in Eighty Days: From the moment he wakes up, every second of Phileas Foggs life is planned. ![]() Teeming with technicolour flora and fauna, the map also includes a host of period features. Williams, whose incredible large-scale fold-out map reveals the full spectacle of Fogg’s riotous escapades. When Phileas Fogg, a wealthy British gentleman who lives his life with mathemetical predictability, bets the fellow members of his club 20,000 that he can circle the earth in just eighty. Sitting perfectly beside Verne’s quirky narrative is the flamboyant nature-inspired artistry of award-winning Kristjana S. Part manhunt, part love story, part social satire, but mostly a race against the clock, Around the World in 80 Days is Jules Verne s most rollicking novel. ![]() But can our intrepid adventurers complete this thrilling race and make it back in time? Part globetrotting travelogue, part mystery caper, Around the World in Eighty Days is, above all, an adventure romance that still entertains almost 150 years after its first publication. ![]() Accompanied by his hot-blooded valet Passepartout, Fogg must face snowbound passes, sweltering jungles, opium dens, Sioux attacks and an alluring Indian princess to win the wager. In betting fellow members of the famous Reform Club half his fortune that he can circumnavigate the globe in just 80 days, Phileas Fogg embarks on the most famous race in literature. A satisfied 3. ![]()
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