
Around the World in Eighty Days. One of the stories of adventures that the Jules Verne authored and published in 1873. The story takes place around trying Villas English regiment rich and known his regime hard and the new servant Jean Passepartout, and he traveled around the world in 80 days in order to win a bet worth £ pounds, 20,000 pounds (equivalent to £ 1,324,289 now) between Phileas Fogg and five of his friends in the reform Club and the corresponding difficulties and obstacles during the trip until he returned again to London. At the end of the novel by Jules Verne demonstrates that novels and science fiction have to be rebuilt on a scientific and rational basis where Phileas Fogg escape from poverty because of the risk of going around the earth from east to west, and not vice versa.
The proposed schedule
| London, United Kingdom to Suez, Egypt | rail and steamer across the Mediterranean Sea | 7 days |
| Suez to Bombay, India | steamer across the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean | 13 days |
| Bombay to Calcutta, India | rail | 3 days |
| Calcutta to Victoria, Hong Kong | steamer across the South China Sea | 13 days |
| Hong Kong to Yokohama, Japan | steamer across the South China Sea, East China Sea, and the Pacific Ocean | 6 days |
| Yokohama to San Francisco, United States | steamer across the Pacific Ocean | 22 days |
| San Francisco to New York City, United States | rail | 7 days |
| New York to London | steamer across the Atlantic Ocean and rail | 9 days |
| Total | 80 days | |
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