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Around The World In Eighty Days

Michael Palin

Jules Verne

'The pace of this kind of travel has not much changed since Fogg set out in 1872. Trains may be a little faster, but there are certainly no high-speed rail links yet across India, China or the USA. Passenger services have practically disappeared from the world's shipping lanes ... Recourse to air travel, even as a convenient means of escape, was not allowed.'



Following the route taken by Phileas Fogg 115 years earlier, Michael Palin set out from the Reform Club to circumnavigate the world. The rules were simple, but nothing else about the trip was straightforward...



From a tour of Venice on a rubbish barge to ship spotting at the Suez Canal and the bicycle rush hour and snake snacks in China, this is an unparalleled tribute to man's ability to make life difficult for himself.husbands that cheat my boyfriend cheated on me with a guy

  • Classification : Travel & Adventure
  • Pub Date : JUN 18, 2009
  • Imprint : Phoenix Paperbacks
  • Page Extent : 256
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9780753823248
  • Price : INR 599
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Michael Palin

Michael Palin has written and starred in numerous TV programmes and films, from Monty Python and Ripping Yarns to The Missionary and The Death of Stalin. He has also made several much-acclaimed travel documentaries, his journeys taking him to the North and South Poles, the Sahara Desert, the Himalayas, Eastern Europe and Brazil. His books include accounts of his journeys, two novels (Hemingway's Chair and The Truth), three volumes of diaries, Erebus, the Story of a Ship and Great Uncle Harry. From 2009 to 2012 he was president of the Royal Geographical Society. He received a BAFTA fellowship in 2013, and a knighthood in the 2019 New Year Honours list. He lives in London.

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Jules Verne

JULES VERNE (1828-1905) was a French writer and pioneer of science fiction is best known today for TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA(1870) and AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS (1873). He was born in Nantes France and as a child ran off to be a cabin boy on a merchant ship but was caught and returned to his parents. After being sent to Paris to study law he soon dropped out and his father cut him off. This forced Verne to make money by selling his stories. He published his first novel FIVE WEEKS IN A BALLOON in 1863. BRYAN HITCH is a renowned comic book artist and co-creator and artist behind both THE AUTHORITY and THE ULTIMATES. MARVEL Comics Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada attributed much of the current popularity of comics in the movies to the style of Bryan's work. His long list of credits for production design include THE SENSATIONAL SHE-HULK X-MEN SUPERMAN and STORMWATCH and for Marvel UK ACTION FORCE DOCTOR WHO MYS-TECH WARS and DEATH'S HEAD.

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