A wager made at a London club sends Phileas Fogg and his new valet Passepartout racing east across three continents with the clock as their real opponent.
Jules Verne wrote the journey as a chain of transport problems: a missed steamer, a broken railway line, a delay along the route, each one eating into the eighty-day margin. Detective Fix trails the pair in the belief that Fogg is a bank robber, adding a second pressure to the timetable. This Fingerprint! Publishing paperback carries the complete story across 248 pages, a length that works for confident younger readers as well as adults revisiting it.
A quick look inside:
• Verne's complete adventure novel in 248 pages
• Journey by steamer, rail and improvised transport
• Detective Fix subplot running alongside the race
• Paperback edition from Fingerprint! Publishing
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