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Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne is an amazing story about a legendary wager. Jules Verne told about can a man travel around the world in under 80 days?The main character of the novel Around the World in 80 Days Phileas Fogg starts journey around the world, to prove that we can travel Around the World.Around the World in 80 Days of Jules Verne about the world tour was published in 1873 and is still of interest.

A fantastic journey around the world is about to begin. Starting in downtown New York and traveling to Australia, China, Turkey, Serbia, Nigeria, France, Brazil, Canada, Puerto Rico, and back to New York again, kids play their hearts out in a grueling, winner-take-all, pick-up basketball game. Full court passes in a gym in Shanghai are effortlessly picked off in Istanbul with a turn of the page. Thwack! Readers will challenge themselves to keep pace with these young players while taking in the sights of the Eiffel Tower and other landmarks that frame the action in each city.John Coy, author of the award-winning Strong to the Hoop, draws once more from his bottomless knowledge of basketball to bring readers the grit, sweat, and realistic hoop-speak that passes between players who know and love the game. Packed full of comic book style action and locales from all over the globe.

One of Jules Verne's most acclaimed works, Around the World in 80 Days is a classic adventure novel published in 1873. It features the adventures of wealthy Phileas Fogg and his French valet Passepartout as they attempt to circumnavigate the world in eighty days on a £20,000 wager set by his friends at the Reform Club of London. Travelling by train, steamship, and sometimes elephant, they encounter multiple obstacles that sidetrack their journey in good and bad ways. By the end, they are racing to reach London before the eighty days has run out. A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager. This is the Large Print Edition of the famous Jules Verne novel Around the World in 80 Days

Picking up where Around the World in Eighty Days left off, Harry Fogg, the son of Phileas Fogg, has just made a wager of his own. Harry bets that he can drive a steam-powered motorcar all the way around the world in only 100 days. Racing off with three companions, Harry undertakes a grueling journey that will pit him against flash fires, marauders, and even sabotage from within. In the tradition of the Jules Verne classic, this is one historical adventure that will have you racing to the finish!

Written as homage to the incomparable Jules Verne, and in the style of “Around the World in 80 Days” and HG Wells’ “The Time Machine”, author Jeff Kinder transports us 100 years though time 100 years into the future.The risky journey for those on board a time travel train exemplifies the perils awaiting them in this unfamiliar future. Join Jeff and friends as they look back to the future on their high-speed adventure that’s about to depart.

Marcus Hansing has just completed his A Levels and is assessing what next to do with his life. His strict father wants him to go straight to university, pulling a few strings to ensure that this happens in time for the autumn session. Marcus, however, has other ideas. He wants to take a year out from his studies in order to travel; but his father will have none of it. It’s uni or nothing as far as he is concerned!Ever since childhood, Marcus always admired Jules Verne’s character, Phileas Fogg, in the novel Around the World in Eighty Days; and it was always his dream to emulate him. Marcus’ anger and frustration comes to a head when his father refuses point blank to agree to his son’s proposed ‘year out’; so Marcus decides to rebel.After just a few weeks of preparation and planning, with the help of his friend, Gareth, he sneaks out of the house one day when his father is out, and his mother’s back is turned, and heads to St Pancras station. Marcus’s plan is to travel around the world, hopefully in eighty days, following the route taken by his fictional nineteenth century hero – i.e. not using any form of air travel.The wrath of his father after learning of his son’s ‘escape’ knows no bounds; so he sets out in pursuit with the intention of dragging his son back home by the proverbial ear! But Marcus is determined to see his journey through to the end, resisting every attempt by his determined father to drag him back home.Like most boys of his age, Marcus is well into social networking, having established an array of e-pals, mostly girls, along his proposed route across the globe. Having a girl in every port would prove advantageous during his travels and enables him to save a lot of money on accommodation – especially as he is using his father’s credit card to help finance the trip!The journey has its ups and downs, and there are many hair-raising moments – from a potentially dangerous encounter with a weirdo in Hawaii, to a fantastic offer from a Japanese businessman, that could put Marcus back in his father’s good books.A special bonus awaits if he achieves the journey in the eighty day period; but just missing the departure of the QM2 at New York is not going to help matters…!

This bedtime story recaps the daily activities of children from all over the world. Each child enjoyed the day outside, playing and frolicking with friends. Now that it is time to nestle in for the night, one young dreamer imagines other children from around the world and the fun they had that day. A sweet and encouraging story that opens the door to dreamland.