![]() As a Frenchman, Verne could not help himself from writing of his British hero, Phineas Fogg, “As for seeing the town, the idea never occurred to him, for he was the sort of Englishman who, on his travels, gets his servant to do his sightseeing for him.”Īmerican writer Ernest Hemingway leaning on the desk of his office. It also demonstrates the technological triumphs of Verne’s age, including America’s Transcontinental Railway, the integration if India’s railroads and the opening of the Suez Canal, three years earlier. ![]() The book is a fantasy of another time but gets to the heart of what stimulates all human beings’ desire to travel well beyond their safe zones. Verne himself had never actually circumnavigated the world-he left France only once to sail around Europe-instead letting his imagination and research to produce science fiction stories along with Eighty Days, which was filled with headlong adventures from London to Suez, Bombay, Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Francisco and New York, all to win a small wager with his British club members. ![]() Around the World in Eighty Days (1872) by Jules Verne-Although the enchanting 1956 movie made from Verne’s novel is now more famous, upon publication the original had been an international bestseller and Verne’s most popular book. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |