Jules Verne · 1873 · global

Jules Verne's 1873 novel. To win a wager at the Reform Club, the exact Phileas Fogg and his valet Passepartout race eastward around the globe by rail and steamship - London to Suez, across India to Calcutta, on to Hong Kong and Yokohama, over the Pacific to San Francisco, and by rail and Atlantic packet back to London - dogged the whole way by a detective who takes Fogg for a bank robber.

1. 1
   London

   Phileas Fogg wagers £20,000 that he can circle the globe in eighty days.

2. 2
   Suez

   The steamer clears the Suez Canal as Detective Fix takes up the chase.

3. 3
   Bombay

   Fogg lands in British India and presses on by rail toward Calcutta.

4. 4
   Calcutta

   Passepartout's temple misadventure nearly costs them their freedom.

5. 5
   Hong Kong

   A missed steamer and an opium den threaten to strand them in the East.

6. 6
   Yokohama

   Passepartout turns up performing in a Japanese travelling circus.

7. 7
   San Francisco

   Across the Pacific by steamer and into California, where Fogg and Passepartout find Fix waiting - and board the transcontinental railroad that has been open barely three years and is the reason the wager is possible at all.

8. 8
   New York

   They miss the Liverpool boat by minutes and charter a ship to chase it.

9. 9
   London

   Fogg thinks he has lost - until he learns he gained a day heading east.