The story starts in London on Tuesday, 1 October, 1872. Phileas Fogg is a rich British gentleman living in solitude. Despite his wealth, Fogg lives a modest life with habits carried out with mathematical precision. Very little can be said about his social life other than that he is a member of the Reform Club. Having dismissed his former valet, James Forster, for bringing him shaving water at 84 °F (29 °C) instead of 86 °F (30 °C), Fogg hires a Frenchman by the name of Jean Passepartout as a replacement. At the Reform Club, Fogg gets involved in an argument over an article in The Daily Telegraph stating that with the opening of a new railway section in India, it is now possible to travel around the world in 80 days. He accepts a wager for £20,000 (equal to about £1.6 million in 2015) from his fellow club members to complete such a journey within this time period. With Monsieur Passepartout accompanying him, Fogg departs from London by train at 8:45 P. M. on 2 October; if he is to win the wager, then he will have to return to the club by this same time on 21 December, 80 days later.

Medien	Bücher Taschenbuch (Buch mit Softcover und geklebtem Rücken)
Erscheinungsdatum	30. März 2017
ISBN13	9781545039984
Verlag	Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Seitenanzahl	170
Maße	178 × 254 × 9 mm · 303 g
Sprache	Englisch