- Producent: Wordsworth Editions
- Kategoria: Literatura obcojęzyczna
- ISBN: 9781853260902
- Oprawa: miękka
- Ilość stron: 384
- Rok wydania: 1994
Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) relates the hair-raising journey made as a wager aby the Victorian gentleman Phileas Fogg, who succeeds - but only just! - in circling the globe within eighty days. The dour Fogg's obsession with his timetable is complemented żeby the dynamism and versatility of his French manservant, Passepartout, whose talent for getting into scrapes brings colour and suspense to the race against time. Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863) was Verne's first novel. It documents an apocryphal jaunt across the continent of Africa in a hydrogen balloon designed aby the omniscient, imperturbable and ever capable Dr Fergusson, the prototype of the Vernian adventurer.
