To take on the bet – to go around the world in eighty days, faster than anyone had gone before – was madness. If Phileas Fogg missed a single connection he would lose £20,000. Phileas Fogg was an eccentric Englishman who lived a quiet ordered life and believed that, with technology and planning, nothing was unforseeable. But he could not plan for the ebullient nature of his French servant, Passepartout, for the adventures that crop up on their journey and for the totally unexpected collision with romance. The humour and freshness of Verne’s writing – vivid despatches from a newly accessible world – make Around The World In Eighty Days an ideal subject for an audiobook.
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| Track # | Title | Artist | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No 7 Savile Row, Burlington Gardens | 3:53 | |
| 2 | Passepartout settles in | 2:17 | |
| 3 | At the Reform Club | 8:54 | |
| 4 | Phileas Fogg a bank thief? | 7:13 | |
| 5 | Fix digs deeper | 3:50 | |
| 6 | Aden and then Bombay – early | 6:23 | |
| 7 | An unexpected hiatus | 6:10 | |
| 8 | A forest procession | 10:51 | |
| 9 | A successful escape | 10:44 | |
| 10 | On the Rangoon to Hong Kong | 5:21 | |
| 11 | Passepartout waylaid | 7:03 | |
| 12 | Departure without Passepartout | 6:38 | |
| 13 | A squall on the way to Yokohama | 6:04 | |
| 14 | Passepartout alone on the Carnatic | 11:31 | |
| 15 | A paddle-wheel steamer to San Francisco | 8:50 | |
| 16 | Arrival in America | 4:40 | |
| 17 | The Pacific Railroad | 6:19 | |
| 18 | Old and new adversaries | 7:19 | |
| 19 | Another strange vehicle | 3:29 | |
| 20 | The Hudson and the Atlantic | 8:24 | |
| 21 | Phileas Fogg lands at Liverpool Pier | 2:56 | |
| 22 | A saddened Fogg arrives home | 3:09 | |
| 23 | The Reform Club again | 1:49 | |
| 24 | Eighty days precisely | 6:12 |
