I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new.'

The world in 1872 is vast, unpredictable, and not entirely charted. Phileas Fogg bets twenty thousand pounds that he can circle it in eighty days and steps out of his London door that same evening, valet Passepartout in tow, with nothing but a travel bag and an unshakeable belief in the precision of timetables.

Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days is one of literature's great adventures—a classic that sweeps through India, Japan, America, and beyond with inspiring energy and sharp wit. But it is Fogg himself who makes it unforgettable, for he is impassive, brilliant, and heroic in ways he would never admit to.

Behind him races a detective convinced he is a bank robber, and ahead of him lies every delay a turning world can throw in his path. But the clock is ticking, and Fogg does not intend to lose.