AROUND THE WORLD IN EITHTY DAYS

 AROUND THE WORLD IN EITHTY DAYS

Today a person can travel around the world in less than eighty hours in a fast Aeroplane. 

Soon, no doubt, it will be possible to do it in eighty minutes. In 1872, when  this story takes place, few people thought that t it could be done in eighty days. Mr. Fogg challenged the scientific society that he could be do it, and the book  tells the story of his journey through the Suez Canal, across Indian to Hong Kong, Shanghai, Japan, America, and back across the Atlantic Ocean to England. If you want to find out whether he is able to complete his journey, you must read the story for yourself. Following is about the man who made history all those years ago.

                

                                                                Mr. Phileas Fogg

Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saliva Row, Burlingoton Gardens, the house  in which Sheridan died in 1814. He was one of the  most noticeable members of the Reform Club, though he seemed always to avoid attracting attention; an enigmatical personage, about whom little was known, except that he was a polished man of the world. People said that he resembled Byron-at least that his head was Byronicl; but he was a bearded, tranquil Byron, who might live on a thousands years without growing old.

           Certainly an Englishman, it was more doubtful whether Phileas Fogg was Londoner. He was never seen on "Change' nor at the Bank, nor in the counting rooms of the "City; no ships never been  entered  at any of the Inns of Court of Chancery, or in the Exchquer, Or the Queenl's Bench , or the Ecclesiasticl Courts. He certainly was not a manufacturer; nor was he a merchant or a gentleman farmer. His name was strange to the scientific and learned societies, and institution, the Artisan's Association, or the Institution of Arts and Science. He belonged, in fact, to none of the numerous societies which swarm in the England capital from the Harmonic to that of the Entomologists, founded mainly for the purpose of abolishing pernicious insects.

    Phileas Fogg was a member of the reforms, and that was all.

The way in which he got admission to this exclusive club was simple enough.

He was recommended by the Barings, with whom he had an open credit. His cheques were regularly paid at sight fro]m his account current, was al'ways flush.

.Was Phileas Fogg rich Undoubtly. But those who knew him best could not imagine how he had made his fortune, and Mr Fogg was last person to whom to apply for the information.