The Victoriana theme continues with Williams’s equally mesmerising binding design and a series of highly inventive chapter headings. Teeming with technicolour flora and fauna, the map also includes a host of period features. Williams, whose incredible large-scale fold-out map reveals the full spectacle of Fogg’s riotous escapades. Sitting perfectly beside Verne’s quirky narrative is the flamboyant nature-inspired artistry of award-winning Kristjana S. But can our intrepid adventurers complete this thrilling race and make it back in time? Part globetrotting travelogue, part mystery caper, Around the World in Eighty Days is, above all, an adventure romance that still entertains almost 150 years after its first publication. Accompanied by his hot-blooded valet Passepartout, Fogg must face snowbound passes, sweltering jungles, opium dens, Sioux attacks and an alluring Indian princess to win the wager. In betting fellow members of the famous Reform Club half his fortune that he can circumnavigate the globe in just 80 days, Phileas Fogg embarks on the most famous race in literature. Around the World in Eighty Days - by Jule Verne Beautiful Feet Books A fastidious English gentleman makes a remarkable wager - he will travel around the.
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