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Around the World in Eighty Days & Five Weeks in a Balloon

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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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Series Title

Wordsworth Classics

Call Number

843.8 VER a

Publisher

Hertfordshire, UK : Wordsworth Editions Limited., 2002

Collation

360p+xviii; bw; pbk

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781853260902

Classification

840

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Edition

Wordsworth Classics, 1st Edition

Subject(s)

Adventure
Classics
Voyages Around the World
Wagers
French Fiction
Reading Comprehension -- Study and Teaching

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