Now, there was no means of taking my travellers through Africa otherwise than in a balloon, and that is why a balloon is introduced…. I always was greatly interested in geography and travel, and I wanted to give a romantic description of Africa. I wrote Five Weeks in a Balloon, not as a story about ballooning, but as a story about Africa.
As Verne himself said of his first Extraordinary Voyage: From a young age, writing and geography were his twin interests.
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(Verne’s son Michel added to the series after his father’s passing.)Īs Around the World in Eighty Days plainly shows, Jules Verne was not simply a science fiction author, although science interested him and was sometimes featured in his works.
The series began in January 1863 with Five Weeks in a Balloon, and by the time of Verne’s death the titles numbered 54. The mistake of the detective Fix has cost Fogg his fortune and proven that the unforeseen can indeed interfere with the best-laid plans to travel around the world in 80 days.įogg spends December 22 quietly at home, until hapless Passepartout breaks into the room and stammers out the mistake-the date is December 21 and Fogg has yet ten minutes to spare! An Extraordinary VoyageĪround the World in Eighty Days was the eleventh installment in a series aptly called Voyages Extraordinaires (Extraordinary Voyages) by Pierre-Jules Hetzel, the fortunate publisher of most of Jules Verne’s fascinating works. But when he steps off of the train, it is already 8:50.
Five minutes too late! Phileas Fogg was due back in London on December 21 and was to make his appearance at his usual club no later than 8:45 PM.
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