{"product_id":"around-the-world-in-80-days","title":"Around The World In 80 Days","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (roughly £1.6 million today) set by his friends at the Reform Club.  The story starts in London on Tuesday, October 1, 1872. Fogg is a rich English gentleman living in solitude. Despite his wealth, Fogg lives a modest life with habits carried out with mathematical precision. Very little can be said about his social life other than that he is a member of the Reform Club. Having dismissed his former valet, James Foster, for bringing him shaving water at 84 °F (29 °C) instead of 86 °F (30 °C), Fogg hires a Frenchman by the name of Jean Passepartout as a replacement. At the Reform Club, Fogg gets involved in an argument over an article in The Daily Telegraph stating that with the opening of a new railway section in India, it is now possible to travel around the world in 80 days. He accepts a wager for £20,000 (equal to about £1.6 million today) from his fellow club members, which he will receive if he makes it around the world in 80 days. Accompanied by Passepartout, he leaves London by train at 8:45 P.M. on Wednesday, October 2, 1872, and is due back at the Reform Club at the same time 80 days later, Saturday, December 21, 1872. \u003c\/span\u003eAuthor: Jules Verne. Paperback; 224 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#211050451\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of Congress Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55919129296969,"sku":"nax1787251424702","price":4.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0937\/7185\/7993\/files\/around-the-world-in-80-days_1.jpg?v=1787251430","url":"https:\/\/streetclad.shop\/products\/around-the-world-in-80-days","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}