Around the World in 80 Days

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However, Fogg's mistake would not have been likely to occur in the real world because a de facto date line did exist. All of them have a different story and serve up exclusive offerings of curios, cocktails, food, and fun! In early 1870, the Erie Railway Company published a statement of routes, times, and distances detailing a trip around the globe of 38,204 km (23,739 mi) in 77 days and 21 hours.

For Kolkata to Hong Kong, the travellers catch a steamer going to Hong Kong across the South China Sea which takes 13 days. According to a second-hand 1898 account, Verne refers to a Cook advertisement as a source for the idea of his book. Abigail and Passepartout manage to secure his release from the governor but fail to get it to the square in time to save him completely from the lash.To prevent Passepartout from informing his master about the premature departure of their next vessel, the Carnatic, Fix gets Passepartout drunk and drugs him in an opium den. Today, Cunard's Queen Mary 2 ocean liner runs NYC– Southampton in seven days, with trains onward running twice-hourly to London. Widespread deployment of steam power on land and sea was slashing travel times on an unprecedented scale in the mid to late 1800s; an intercity journey by stagecoach that used to take a week was often completed same-day by rail. In 2017, Mark Beaumont, a British cyclist inspired by Verne, set out to cycle across the world in 80 days. The intimidatingly grand houses bristle with security devices and many sport grandiose embassy plaques.

In the story by Jules Verne, Fogg gets into an argument with his fellow members At the Reform Club over an article in The Daily Telegraph . A short time later, the misunderstanding is cleared up – the actual robber had been caught three days earlier in Edinburgh.While Fogg was unable to find another steamer headed for Yokohama, he manages to hire the Tankadere to take him to 31. The fabulously wealthy Victorian gentleman Phileas Fogg wagers his life's fortune that he can circumnavigate the globe in just 80 days.

Consequently, it is unlikely he would fail to notice that the departure dates of the transcontinental train in San Francisco and of the China steamer in New York were one day earlier than his travel diary. With a bit of ingenuity from the art department, the same boat reappears throughout the movie, as the SS Rangoon from 'Calcutta' to 'Hong Kong', the SS General Grant to 'San Francisco' and finally the ill-fated Henrietta from 'New York' to 'Liverpool'.The complete text of the novel is on Wikisource in the original French and in an English translation. When the local leaves them stranded in the desert, they are rescued by Jane Digby and her husband, who Abigail had persuaded to give help. The ambitious plan originally was to employ a director from the relevant country to direct each sequence, but Brit director Michael Anderson, who kicked off with an efficient if uninspired job in London was handed the whole assignment by producer-showman Mike Todd.

You can then catch one of the ferries from Dublin to Liverpool, from which you have multiple options for catching a train onward to London. He completed the trip in 78 days, 14 hours and 40 minutes, after departing from Paris on 2 July 2017.Having been performed across the globe, this Christmas Laura Eason’s celebrated adaptation of one of the world’s most beloved tales arrives in London in a dazzling new production directed by Lucy Bailey. Inspired by Jules Verne's classic account of intrepid traveller and English explorer Phileas Fogg's journey from London, through India, circumnavigating the late Victorian world in 80 days, this exclusive dining experience showcases the diversity of gastronomic influences across four of the Taj's restaurants on Buckingham Gate, less than a mile across St. While balloons were well known in 1872, and Jules Verne described them in other books, the original novel lets Fogg dismiss balloons as useless for travel. Some of the adaptations have set up Fogg and Passepartout travelling a leg of the journey in a hot air balloon. In particular, three technological breakthroughs occurred in 1869–1870 that made a tourist-like around-the-world journey possible for the first time: the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in America (1869), the opening of the Suez Canal (1869), and the linking of the Indian railways across the sub-continent (1870).