Widespread deployment of steam power on land and sea was slashing travel times on an unprecedented scale in the mid to late 1800s an intercity journey by stagecoach that used to take a week was often completed same-day by rail. Unlike much of Verne's work, Around the World in Eighty Days is not a work of science fiction. The itinerary can, with some difficulty and deviations, be re-created today. The story describes Phileas Fogg of London and his French valet Jean Passepartout circumnavigating the world in 80 days in an effort to win a £20,000 wager-a small fortune in that era. Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours) is a novel by Jules Verne, described contemporaneously as taking place in the last quarter of 1872, as the historical British Empire on which "the sun never sets" was nearing its peak.
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