Around the World in Eighty Days

In 1872, the unflappable Phileas Fogg wagers £20,000 at his London club that he can travel around the world in eighty days. With his excitable French valet Passepartout at his side, Fogg sets off immediately — crossing the Red Sea, the Indian subcontinent, the Pacific, and the American frontier at mathematical precision. Pursued by Detective Fix, who mistakes him for a bank robber, and slowed by storms, missing trains, a Sioux raid, and a rescue mission for a widow condemned to death, Fogg faces one catastrophe after another without ever raising an eyebrow. A high-speed adventure that is also a quiet meditation on what it means to live — and whether the world is best observed in a schedule or in the living of it.