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Fogg's appearance matches the description of the bank robber. On arrival in Egypt, Fogg is noticed by Inspector Fix, a detective who has been sent by Scotland Yard to search for the man who robbed the Bank of England. Their journey from London through France and Italy by train and on to Egypt by boat goes smoothly and is uneventful.

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The two take only two shirts, three pairs of socks, one extra pair of shoes and two coats each and a large bag full of money. The stamps in his passport are to serve as proof that he made the journey.įogg returns home and tells Passepartout to get ready to leave immediately. When the other members of the Reform Club dismiss his claim, Fogg bets twenty thousand pounds that he can travel around the world in exactly eighty days and return to the Reform Club at precisely 8:45pm on Saturday December 21, 1872. Pointing to an article in The Daily Telegraph about the completion of a railway connecting Bombay to Calcutta, he says that it has become possible to travel around the world in eighty days. Fogg disagrees, saying that advances in transport have effectively made the world smaller. The members of the Reform Club discuss the robbery and say that it will be difficult to catch the robber because the world is a very big place in which to hide. Illustration by Alphonse de Neuville and Leon Benett from the first edition.Ī large amount of money has been stolen from the Bank of England. For example, he insists that his shaving water be exactly eighty-four degrees Fahrenheit and fired his previous servant for bringing him water which was two degrees too hot. Fogg also insists on precision in every aspect of his life. Fogg follows the same routine every day, spending most of the day playing cards at the Reform Club, a private gentleman's club of which he is a member. Fogg is described as handsome, he is said to resemble Lord Byron, he is independently wealthy but nobody knows how he came by his fortune. Jean Passepartout, a former Paris firefighter and stage acrobat who has traveled extensively, wishes to settle down to a quiet life and therefore is happy to take up a position at the London home of Phileas Fogg.

Illustration by Alphonse de Neuville and Leon Benett from the first edition.

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One of the best known and most highly regarded of those adaptations is the 1956 American film Around the World in 80 Days starring the British actor David Niven and the Mexican comedy movie star Cantinflas. The novel has been adapted to other media numerous times. Fogg is pursued from Egypt back to England by Inspector Fix, a Scotland Yard detective who wrongly believes that Fogg is a thief who robbed the Bank of England. Aouda then accompanies Fogg and Passepartout on the rest of their journey. In India, Passepartout rescues Aouda, the widow of a raja, from being put to death as part of her late husband's funeral ceremony. The journey is initially uneventful but Fogg and Passepartout encounter and overcome several problems in India, Hong Kong, Japan and the United States and on the ocean. Fogg bets twenty thousand pounds that he will be able to travel around the world and return to his starting point in exactly eighty days. The main characters in the novel are the wealthy and somewhat mysterious Englishman Phileas Fogg and his French manservant Jean Passepartout. It was first published in France in January 1873 and the first English translation appeared the same year. Front cover of the French first edition of Around the World in Eighty Days, published in January 1873.Īround the World in Eighty Days (French: Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is an adventure novel by the French author Jules Verne.