![]() ![]() With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Around the World in Eighty Days is both modern and readable. My biggest issue with Palins around the world in 80 days was how rushed it was. ![]() Over the past four decades, scientists have seen a steep decline in both the amount and thickness of Arctic sea ice during the summer and winter months. Instead its all ice thats floating on top of the Arctic Ocean. The sweep and charm of this adventure classic are undimmed today." His journeys have taken him across the world, the North and South Poles. Unlike Antarctica, theres no land at the North Pole. A bestseller in its day Around the World in Eighty Days was first published in 1873 and conveys the excitement and fascination felt by both the author and his readers for the Victorian era's fresh new possibilities in travel. Interspersed with all the driving action are colorful glimpses of distant lands and descriptions of Fogg's various forms of travel, which range from train and steamer to elephant and wind-powered sleigh. Complications in his travel occur early and often, with Fogg and his loyal valet Passepartout falling behind schedule and struggling to catch up as the author brilliantly blocks their path with everything from a relentlessly pursuing policeman, who mistakenly believes Fogg to be a bank robber, to attacks by Sioux braves and a mutiny at sea. When Phileas Fogg brashly accepts a bet that he can travel around the world in a mere 80 days he not only risks his fortune but his life. There is not much useful conversation or news to be found on the way to North Pole anyway. If you have a valeting set, Fogg get more health points (I'm guessing). Just in time for the holidays, the widely acclaimed 80 Days is inviting you to travel to the North Pole through its latest update. There is not much useful conversation or news to be found on the way to North Pole anyway. Encountering one adventure after another and pursued by a determined policeman, Fogg's inventiveness will be challenged to its limit. Whenever you get a choice between news, conversation and Fogg, choose to comfort Fogg. Phileas Fogg puts up half his fortune wagering that he can circumnavigate the earth in 80 days. A group of international artists explore the Arctic island chain of Svalbard. ![]()
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