Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingt Jours

Jules Verne's "Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingt Jours" (Around the World in Eighty Days) is a classic adventure novel published in 1874. The story follows the precise and disciplined Englishman Phileas Fogg and his loyal French valet Passepartout, as they attempt to circumnavigate the globe in exactly eighty days on a wager of £20'000, a colossal sum at the time. The narrative captures their race against time as they use various modes of transportation, including steamships, railways, elephants, and sledges, traversing through exotic locales and encountering numerous challenges and adventures along the way.