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Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Description
Complete with visas, running shoes, and an inflatable globe, Michael Palin set out with an ambitious plan: to circumnavigate the world, following the route taken by Jules Verne's fictional hero Phileas Fogg 115 years earlier. The rules were simple: He had to make the journey in eighty days using only forms of transport that would have been available to Fogg. Crossing seventeen borders and meeting innumerable challenges, he saw Venice from the back...
164) Francis Drake
Author
Pub. Date
c1992
Description
Describes the life and adventures of the seaman who was the first Englishman to sail around the world.
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
"a list of medicinal plants" : the botanist and the herb woman -- "To Jeanne Baret, also known as Jeanne de Bonnefoy" : a changed identity in Paris -- "A masquerade of devils" : crossing the line -- "Placing me under arrest" : the Bougainvillea and the South Atlantic -- "His beast of burden" : on the shores of the Strait of Magellan -- "Venus showed herself" : Tahiti exposed -- "The location of hell" : Baret on New Ireland -- "The true promised land"...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Explore the world's most thrilling snow adventures with the latest instalment in Lonely Planet's Epic series. From skiing British Columbia's Coast Mountains to ice-caving in Iceland and splitboarding the mountains of Hokkaido in Japan, this book contains 50 first-person stories plus a further 150 route ideas.
Author
Series
STEAM tales volume 2
Pub. Date
©2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In 1872, English gentleman Phileas Fogg has many adventures as he tries to win a bet that he can travel around the world in eighty days.
168) The big race
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
This updated rematch of the fabled race between the tortoise and the hare takes the duo around the world. Includes information about the different locations visited. Pages are split into top and bottom so the story flows in a circle.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In this graphic retelling of the classic novel, Phileas Fogg bets his friends in London that in the year 1872 he can travel around the world in eighty days--and he and his personal attendant, Passepartout, find danger and romance on the journey.
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"On November 14, 1889, newspaper reporter Nellie Bly set out on the trip of a lifetime. Equipped with just one small bag of necessities, she planned to circle the globe in a mere 75 days. In a time of steamships, locomotives, and horse-drawn carriages, few thought she could do it. But bravery and determination carried her through. How did Bly complete her historic journey, and what is its enduring legacy? Find out in an easy-to-read graphic novel...
Author
Series
Classics illustrated deluxe volume 7
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
A graphic novel adaptation of Jules Verne's classic novel featuring Phileas Fogg, a wealthy gentleman who makes a bet that he can travel around the world in just eighty days.
