Around the World in 80 Days

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He became a keen sailor, who enjoyed long voyages on his own steam-powered yacht – complete with a ten-strong crew.

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Much confusion and conflict arises from misinterpretations of customs and traditions that Fogg isn’t used to. Brought along on Fogg’s journey is Passepartout, whose clever name means “goes everywhere,” or “master key. I will say that, even though it's clearly not the point of this book, I get the feeling that they made it almost too fast - that it's clear that the main character has this deliberate and precise way to him that is never really challenged by the situations he finds himself in. She became famous for investigative reporting, not shying away from difficult issues, many of them in support of women’s lives.

The character of Phileas Fogg has become a stoic archetype for too cool operators in books to come in several genres.

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Fix the detective is now Abigail Fix the journalist, not in pursuit of Phileas Fogg but rather documenting his travels around the world. Meanwhile, London police officer Detective Fix has a theory that Fogg is actually the thief after hearing about Fogg’s wager, which has made news. A detour to Baker Street entices him to follow Sherlock Holmes on a “train of reasoning”; whisked along by a notional Eurostar, he emerges in Paris, where a route back to a remembered paradise unexpectedly opens for Proust in the Bois de Boulogne. Fix promises Passepartout that now, having left British soil, he will no longer try to delay Fogg's journey but instead support him in getting back to Britain, where he can arrest him.Omitting Australia, he then heads home to an island off the coast of Maine to complete the record of his imaginary expedition. In 1984, Nicholas Coleridge emulated Fogg's trip, taking 78 days; he wrote a book titled Around the World in 78 Days. Phileas Fogg, an enigmatic bachelor living in London makes a gentleman’s bet with some friends from his club and sets off on an 80 day adventure.

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Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before people invented navigable aircraft and practical submarines and devised any means of spacecraft.I have to ask - does anyone know if he has been in any of Verne's previous stories as it seems like he has an amazing past. So much so, in fact, that his book inspired the acclaimed American Journalist, Nellie Bly, to make her own attempt at beating Phileas Fogg’s fictional eighty-day record.

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The 17th-century Japanese poet Bashō bumps into Andy Warhol when a haiku praising him is recited during an episode of The Simpsons; the tribute, Damrosch says, confers on Bashō “an aptly ephemeral immortality: 15 pixels of fame”. Damrosch mistrusts such expropriations: he therefore includes poetry by the Aztec victims of the Spanish conquistadors, and applauds Derek Walcott for Creolising Homer’s name when he translates Omeros into “our Antillean patois”.

Pick up this book if you don’t know what to pick up next or if you have been a victim of average reads recently.