Making his way thousands of miles on a machine as unstable and potentially dangerous as the penny-farthing was a scene too fascinating for most Americans not to watch, and Mr.

Elsewhere, with a frisson of up-to-date alarm, he notices that the storytellers in Boccaccio’s Decameron have quit Florence to escape a pestilence, while the stricken gypsy in García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude contracts pellagra in Persia, scurvy in Malaya, leprosy in Alexandria, beriberi in Japan and the Black Death in Madagascar. Produced in Germany and starring Conrad Veidt as Phileas Fogg, the film's original German title was Die Reise um die Erde in 80 Tagen. Regarding the idea of gaining a day, Verne said of its origin: "I have a great number of scientific odds and ends in my head.The deceased narrator of his comic masterpiece, Brás Cubas, says that he is writing “with the pen of mirth and the ink of melancholy. On one hand, you see a level of suffering documented in the dramatic and gritty photography of Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans. In 1908, Harry Bensley, on a wager, set out to circumnavigate the world on foot wearing an iron mask.

But instead it just leaves each section feeling a bit watered-down and not quite sure where it's really trying to go. A possible inspiration was the traveller George Francis Train, who made four trips around the world, including one in 80 days in 1870. Little differentiates the three stories visually and the elements begin to blur, the result as flat as a breezeless sea.

After reading and enjoying Matt Phelan's "The Storm in the Barn," I was curious to see what else he had written.

The story was published in installments over the next 45 days, with its ending timed to synchronize Fogg's December 21 deadline with the real world.In Around the World in 80 Trees, Jonathan Drori uses plant science to illuminate how trees play a role in every part of human life, from the romantic to the regrettable. In Hong Kong Passepartout attempts to secure cabins on a boat to Yokohama and learns that its departure has been rescheduled for that evening. Hundreds of fun objects are hidden inside full-colour photo puzzles of our world's flags, foods, landmarks, animals, customs and more. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passepartout.