Shocking his stodgy colleagues at the exclusive Reform Club, enigmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune, undertaking an extraordinary and daring enterprise: to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.

With his French valet Passepartout in tow, Vernes hero traverses the far reaches of the earth, all the while tracked by the intrepid Detective Fix, a bounty hunter certain he is on the trail of a notorious bank robber.

Set from the text of George M. Towles original 1873 translation, this Modern Library Paperback Classic of Vernes adventure novel comes vividly alive, brilliantly reecting on time, space, and one mans struggle to reach beyond the bounds of both science and society.From the Trade Paperback edition.