Phineas Fogg's Map

2 1/8" x 1", the map is 1 3/4" x 9 1/4"

In 1872, Mr Phineas Fogg, of No.7, Savile Row, Burlington Gardens, London, made a bet based on a claim made by the Morning Chronicle that, due to the recent advances in travel, the world could be circumnavigated in eighty days.
 
'But, Mr Fogg, this period of 80 days is merely the minimum it can be done in!'
'A properly used minimum is enough for anything.'
'But in order to do it, you'll have to mathematically jump from trains into steamships and from steamships on to trains!'
'I'll jump mathematically.'
'You must be joking!'
'An Englishman never jokes about anything as important as a bet. I hereby wager 20,000 pounds with anyone who wishes that I will carry out the tour of the world in 80 days or less, i.e. in 1,920 hours or 115,200 minutes. Will you accept?'

This cool calculation starts in motion one of the great 19th century adventure novels, Jules Verne's AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS. This map contains the proposed route as printed in the Chronicle, broken down from city to city. The map and the binding are based on motifs and details of the first edition of Jules Verne's LE TOUR DU MONDE EN QUATRE-VINGT JOURS, (Pierre-Jules Hetzel, 1873)

This product was added to our catalog  October 24, 2009