Book description
One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he
can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the
well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for
Dover with his astonished valet Passepartout. Passing through exotic
lands and dangerous locations, they seize whatever transportation is at
hand - whether train or elephant - overcoming set-backs and always
racing against the clock. In 1863, Jules Verne (1828-1905) published
Five Weeks in a Balloon, and struck a new vein in fiction - stories that
combined popular science and exploration. He wrote 54 novels in the
Extraordinary Voyages series. Michael Glencross, the translator, has
written widely on French literature and culture. Brian Aldiss is a
distinguished Science Fiction writer as well as a poet, essayist,
dramatist, SF historian and critic. His lastest work is Super-State: A
Novel of Future Europe (2002).
