Phileas Fogg is a rich English gentleman living in solitude. Despite his wealth, Fogg lives a modest life with habits carried out with mathematical precision. Very little can be said about his social life other than that he is a member of the Reform Club. Having dismissed his former valet, James Forster, for bringing him shaving water at 84 Â°F (29 Â°c) instead of 86 Â°f (30 Â°c), Fogg hires a Frenchman by the name of Jean Passepartout as a replacement.

At the Reform 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. He accepts a wager for Â£20,000 (equal to about Â£1.6 million today) from his fellow club members, which he will receive if he makes it around the world in 80 days. Accompanied by Passepartout, he leaves London by train at 8:45 pm on Wednesday, October 2, 1872, and is due back at the Reform Club at the same time 80 days later, Saturday, December 21, 1872.

Mídia	Livros Hardcover Book (Livro com lombada e capa dura)
Lançado	6 de dezembro de 2020
ISBN13	9781774379530
Editoras	Engage Books
Páginas	180
Dimensões	152 × 229 × 14 mm · 435 g
Idioma	English

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