Around The World In Eighty Days (English, Paperback, Jules Verne)

When the phlegmatic Englishman, Phileas Fogg, and his irrepressible French valet, Jean Passepartout, accept a wager to circumnavigate the world in eighty days, nobody believes they can win. As they race by steamship and train to beat the deadline they face stormy seas, dense jungles and snowbound passes, and encounter a captivating Indian beauty.

Jules Verne’s thrilling of their epic journey is the offical book of the first South West Great Reading Adventure, which runs for eighty days from January to March 2006. Everyone in the region will be reading and talking about it: visit www.swreads.com for further details.

The Great Reading Adventure is the opening project in Brunel 200, a year-long celebration to mark the bicentenary of the birth of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the innovative engineer and design who did so much to change our experiences of time and travel.
Source- Goodreads.com