Jules Verne

Around the World in 80 Days Annotated Book With Teacher Edition Jules Verne

Mr. Phileas Fogg is a wealthy man residing in London who is a part of the Reform Club, an elite social organization. He has these days hired a brand new home servant, a Frenchman named Passe-partout. While at the Reform Club, he makes a wager with the alternative club contributors that it's far viable to go around the world by using educate and steamer in just 80 days, and that he himself can do it. Since 20,000 pounds are at stake, he fetches Passe-partout and that they head off right away to circumnavigate the globe. Waiting for Fogg on the Suez Canal, in which he will take a steamer to Bombay, India, is a detective named Fix; reputedly, Fogg has been accused of robbing the Bank of England. He follows Fogg and Passe-partout at the steamer Mongolia to India, where he hopes to acquire a warrant to arrest Fogg because the robber.