If the thing is feasible, the first to do it ought to be an Englishman. Phileas Fogg, the precise and stoic English gentleman, bets his entire fortune that he can travel around the world in eighty days.
Thus begins Jules Verne s classic novel, taking his hero Phileas Fogg and his faithful manservant, Passepartout, on a fantastic journey into a world filled with surprises, danger and beauty, all the while tracked by the intrepid Detective Fix a bounty hunter certain he is on the trail of a notorious bank robber.
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