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Around the world in 80 days

For a bet, Phileas Fogg sets out with his servant Passepartout to achieve an incredible journey - from London to Paris, Brindisi, Suez, Bombay, Calcutta, Singapore, Hong Kong, San Francisco, New York and back to London again, all in just eighty days! There are many alarms and surprises along the way -- and a last-minute setback that makes all the difference between winning and losing.

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  • "Around the World in Eighty Days (audiodisc.)"@en
  • "Westlake House presents Around the world in eighty days"@en
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  • "For a bet, Phileas Fogg sets out with his servant Passepartout to achieve an incredible journey - from London to Paris, Brindisi, Suez, Bombay, Calcutta, Singapore, Hong Kong, San Francisco, New York and back to London again, all in just eighty days! There are many alarms and surprises along the way -- and a last-minute setback that makes all the difference between winning and losing."@en
  • "For a bet, Phileas Fogg sets out with his servant Passepartout to achieve an incredible journey - from London to Paris, Brindisi, Suez, Bombay, Calcutta, Singapore, Hong Kong, San Francisco, New York and back to London again, all in just eighty days! There are many alarms and surprises along the way -- and a last-minute setback that makes all the difference between winning and losing."
  • "On a wager, the eccentric English gentleman Phileas Fogg accepts a challenge to circle the globe in eighty days. Follow Phileas and his faithful valet Passepartout, in this classic fantastic adventure."@en
  • "Phileas Fogg of London, and his valet Passepartout attempt a voyage around the world in 80 days to win a wager set by freinds at his club."@en
  • "A man makes a bet that it is possible to circumvent the globe in eighty days."@en
  • "Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre on the Air on the Air dramatization of Around the world in 80 days, by Jules Verne,as heard on October 23, 1938, with Orson Welles, Ray Collins, and others."@en
  • "In 1872 Phileas Fogg wagers that he can circle the earth in eighty days and traveling by steamer, railway, carriage, and elephant he wins his bet in seventy-nine days, twenty-three hours, and fifty-seven minutes."@en
  • "On October 2, 1872, Mr. Phileas Fogg wagers twenty thousand pounds that he can travel around the world in eighty days. This is the story of that journey."@en
  • "In 1872, English gentleman Phileas Fogg has many adventures as he tries to win a bet that he can travel around the world in eighty days."@en
  • "In 1872, English gentleman Phileas Fogg has many adventures as he tries to win a bet that he can travel around the world in eighty days."
  • "A fastidious English gentleman makes a remarkable wager: He will travel around the world in eighty days or forfeit his life's savings. Thus begins Jules Verne's classic novel-one that remains unsurpassed in sheer storytelling entertainment and pure adventure.Phileas Fogg and his faithful manservant, Jean Passepartout, embark on a fantastic journey into a world filled with danger and beauty-from the exotic shores of India, where the heroic travelers rescue the beautiful wife of a rajah from ritual sacrifice, to the rugged American frontier, where their train is ambushed by an angry Sioux tribe. Fogg's mission is complicated by an incredible case of mistaken identity that sends a Scotland Yard detective in hot pursuit.At once a riveting race against time and an action-packed odyssey into the unknown, Around the World in Eighty Days is a masterpiece of adventure fiction that has captured the imagination of generations of readers and continues to enthrall us today."@en
  • "One day in 1872, Phileas Fogg takes up a wager with fellow member of London's Reformer's Club to journey round the world in eighty days."
  • "An English gentleman undertakes a wager that he can travel around the world in 80 days. The voyage is complicated by his bumbling valet Passepartout, an unwelcome detective from Scotland, and the unexpected dangers incurred when racing against time."
  • "Orson Welles stars as Phileas Fogg of London, who together with his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager set by his friends at the Reform Club."
  • "Verne's most outrageous, "voyage extraordinaire." A hasty world tour taken up on a gentlemen's club wager! Mr. Phileas Fogg, master of precision, enters into the strangest wager ever made over the whist table, that he will circle the globe in 80 days. The news astounds Jean Passepartout, sometime wandering minstrel, bareback rider, funambulist, gymnast and fireman, now turned valet to Mr. Fogg in the expectancy of a quiet and well-regulated life. For the next 80 days, their lives are anything but quiet or well-regulated. Jules Verne preferred to call himself an author of "voyages extraordinaires". An extraordinary voyage it is, from Fogg's announcement to Passepartout that they are to "leave for Dover in ten minutes", to his triumphant return to the Reform Club at the last second!"@en
  • "A Victorian gentleman and his valet set off on a trip which will take them around the world in 80 days, to win a bet he has made."@en
  • "Follows the adventures of English gentleman Phileas Fogg and his manservant, Passepartout, as Fogg tries to win his wager that he can travel around the world in eighty days."
  • "Eccentric Englishman Phileas Fogg accepts a bet made at his London club to complete a journey around the world in only eighty days."@en
  • "Eccentric Englishman Phileas Fogg accepts a bet made at his London club to complete a journey around the world in only eighty days."
  • "In 1872 Phileas Fogg wagers that he can circle the earth in eighty days; and traveling by steamer, railway, carriage, sledge, and elephant he wins his bet in seventy-nine days, twenty-three hours, and fifty-seven minutes."@en
  • "Shocking his stodgy colleagues at the exclusive Reform Club, enigmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune, undertaking an extraordinary and daring enterprise to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. With his French valet Passepartout in tow, Verne's hero traverses the far reaches of the earth, all the while tracked by the intrepid Detective Fix, a bounty hunter certain he is on the trail of a notorious bank robber. Combining exploration, adventure, and a thrilling race against time, Around the World in 80 Days gripped audiences upon its original publication and remains hugely popular to this day."@en
  • "This record contains the story of Phileas Fogg, an Englishman who undertakes a hasty world tour as the result of a bet made at his London club. Fogg and his French valet, Passepartout set out that very night and, by superhuman effort, succeed in circling the glove and turning up again at the club ten minutes before expiration of the 80-day time limit. The story is read by Chris Curran, Alan MacDonald, and Barbara McCaughey. A teacher's guide is included. The record is part of "Adventure!," a set of 10 LP's, Cat. No. SAS-21, $65.50. The story in cassette form is available individually as Cat. No. SAC 6095 (Part 1) and SAC 6096 (Part 2), $6.95 each, or as part of Cassette Library for Young Listeners, Volume 2" and "Spoken Arts Mini-Kit 32." FKC, 11-75."
  • "Phileas Fogg sets out on his epic adventure -- will he make it back to London in time for tea? Steve Coogan, Jackie Chan and Cecile de France star in a new film version of the book. Here former Manuel actor Andrew Sachs gives full range to his versatility using his many voices along with brilliant narration."@en

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  • "Around the world in 80 days [o gyros tou kosmou se ogdonta emeres]"
  • "Around the world in 80 days"
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  • "Around the World in 80 Days"@en
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