Passepartout looks for a priest when she asks him to marry her. He regrets bringing Aouda to London, where he will then have to live in poverty. Fogg arrives five minutes late in London and learns he has lost the betting. The postponement, on the other hand, is expensive. This is just temporary, as the actual thief was arrested three days prior. Fix arrests Fogg as soon as they get on English soil. They still have a chance to fulfill the deadline and win the betting. They eventually arrive in Ireland and take a train from Dublin to Liverpool, where they board a boat. When the boat runs out of fuel, Fogg buys some from the captain and orders the crew to burn whatever wood they can to stay on track. He pays the sailors to launch a mutiny and sail to Liverpool once they're at sea. Because the captain refuses, Fogg arranges for his group's transportation to Bordeaux, France. Fogg, with the help of his big riches, hires a steamboat in the hopes of getting to Liverpool. When they arrive in New York, they discover that they have missed their cruise. Soldiers from the United States assist in his rescue. Various obstacles block their progress once more, including an attempt by Sioux warriors who abduct Passepartout. The next part of their journey will take them to New York by train. The trio, together with Fix, board a paddle-steamer for San Francisco, where Fix promises he will quit attempting to extend the voyage and instead assist them in returning to Britain, where he will capture Fogg. The valet has been working for a circus to gain money to get home. They soon find their way and begin looking for Passepartout, who had come earlier. Fogg and Aouda miss a ship to Yokohama due to a chain of circumstances. Passepartout, who suspected Fix of being a spy for the Reform Club, denies the claim. Fix informs Passepartout that his boss is a bank robber in an attempt to capture Fogg once more. Fogg and Passepartout are caught by Detective Fix, but after they are released on bail, they run to Hong Kong, where Passepartout is delighted to see him again.Īouda was supposed to be left with a relative in Hong Kong, but that person has already gone, so she joins them on their voyage back to Europe. They board a ship to Hong Kong as a trio. The visitors then come upon Aouda, a young Indian woman who has been poisoned and is about to be sacrificed.įogg and Passepartout create a strategy to save her, and after terrifying the priests by claiming to be her late husband on the death march where she is to be burnt, they are off again, this time carrying Aouda. Unafraid, Fogg purchases an elephant and hires a guide, and they set off on their journey once more. After India, they board a train to Calcutta, where Fogg discovers that the new rail mentioned in the Daily Telegraph comes to a rest at one point and does not continue until Allahabad, fifty miles away. He befriends Passepartout, but he doesn't tell him why he's there. He also lacks a warrant, so he boards a ship heading for Bombay with them.
He is unable to provide a detailed description and misidentifies Fogg as the offender. The first stage of Fogg and Passepartout's voyage leads them to Egypt, where a Scotland Yard detective named Fix is on the hunt for a bank robber. He must return to the club by the same hour on December 21 to collect the bet. He accepts a 20,000-pound bet from his club members and, with Passepartout in tow, departs London on a train at 8:45 p.m. An article in the Daily Telegraph newspaper inspired him to believe that an eighty-day voyage around the world was conceivable, pointing to a new railway in India that would allow him to do it. He belongs to the Reform Club and employs a French valet named Jean Passepartout. Phileas Fogg, a wealthy British gent, leads a lonely, well-organized lifestyle. The closing date of the novel, December 21, 1872, was the same date it began to be serialized, making some readers believe the story was actually happening.The narrative begins in London on October 1st, on a Tuesday. While journeying, he is mistaken for a criminal by Detective Fix, who follows them in an attempt to capture the alleged bank robber.The novel was written at a time when trans-global travel was just becoming a reality thanks to technological innovations such as the First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States and the opening of the Suez Canal, both in 1869, and the linking of the Indian Railways in 1870. In The Tour of the World in 80 Days (also known as: Around the World in Eighty Days, Around the World in 80 Days, The Tour of the World in Eighty Days, Round the World in Eighty Days, Round the World in 80 Days, and Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingts Jours ), written by Jules Verne, a rich, but otherwise inconspicuous member of British society, The main character Phileas Fogg departs London with his new valet, Jean Passepartout, on an attempt to traverse the world in 80 days.
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