Round the World in Eighty Days

Penguin Readers, 2000. — 39 p. Can Phileas Fogg go round the world in eighty days? It is 1872, thirty years before the first aeroplane. The railways are new in America and there are faster ships with better engines. The Times newspaper says the journey is possible. It gives a timetable, but is the timetable right? There can be problems in every country in the world. Then Phileas Fogg will lose his bet, twenty thousand pounds. And Phileas Fogg doesn’t know that somebody wants to stop him before the end of his journey.