Using a sail-powered sledge, Fogg and the others travel over snow to Omaha, Nebraska, arriving just in time to board a train to Chicago. Concerning the final coup de théâtre, Fogg had thought it was one day later than it actually was because he had forgotten that during his journey, he had added a full day to his clock, at the rate of an hour per 15° of longitude crossed. Battling their critics, situational obstacles and the limits of human physiological stamina and contemporary technology, Thomas Stevens, Nellie Bly and Joshua Slocum each set out to accomplish a feat that had never been successfully completed. Visiting Tokyo, the poet James Merrill announces that every trip is a reincarnation and resolves that this will be “the one in which I arrange myself like flowers”.

Verne cited an 1872 article in Nature, and Edgar Allan Poe's short story "Three Sundays in a Week" (1841), which was also based on going around the world and the difference in a day linked to a marriage at the end. I’d always known how important the book was said to be, but until I first read it, I had no idea how delightful it is to sink into its luxurious sentences. I do notice Phelan has a tendency to not open characters' mouths when they speak, however, which makes for some awkward-looking panels at times and confusion as to who exactly is saying what at other times. Thomas Stevens never gave up, though, continuing to pedal his way around the world until his determination paid off and the bicycle became viewed as a legitimate mode of travel. The 2014 game of the same name, 80 Days (2014 video game), developed by Inkle, is loosely based on the novel while introducing various science fiction elements.He was a mariner who wanted to sail around the world with an old falling apart boat that he had transformed into a new sturdy sailboat but with a As Passepartout notifies a minister, he learns that he is mistaken in the date – it is not 22 December, but instead 21 December.

Another musical version, 80 Days, with songs by Ray Davies of the Kinks and a book by playwright Snoo Wilson, directed by Des McAnuff, ran at the Mandell Weiss Theatre in San Diego from 23 August to 9 October 1988, receiving mixed responses from the critics. And I feel like grown-ups, who will have more of a sense of the context and more of an appreciation of the weighty tone, might be a better audience. As I've said before, for Phelan (or his publishers) to market this for kids narrows its possibilities, maybe. One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. To prevent Passepartout from informing his master about the premature departure of their next vessel, the Carnatic, Fix gets Passepartout drunk and drugs him in an opium den.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. A possible inspiration was the traveller George Francis Train, who made four trips around the world, including one in 80 days in 1870.