About this audiobook
Phileas Fogg, an English gentleman whose life follows a precise routine, accepts a wager that he can travel around the world in eighty days. Accompanied by his resourceful valet Passepartout, he leaves London on a journey that depends on railway timetables, shipping connections and the ability to respond when arrangements fail. Every delay puts the wager at risk.
Detective Fix follows the travellers, convinced that Fogg may be a bank robber. His pursuit adds another obstacle to a route already complicated by unexpected encounters and difficult choices. The contrast between Fogg's outward composure and Passepartout's lively reactions gives the adventure much of its humour.
Jules Verne turns a race against the clock into a story about trust, ingenuity and the limits of careful planning. The journey asks what matters when keeping a schedule conflicts with helping another person, and how an apparently unchanging man responds to a world full of surprises.
