Around the World in 80 Days

Jules Verne was born to tell stories. Reading him is like entering his imagination and living through it. 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea', 'Journey To The Center Of The Earth', 'From Earth To The Moon' and many more are the examples of his incredible ability to imagine, spin stories around and explain scientifically the inventions of the future, way before they were reality if already conceived. This book is the journey of a mysterious man who takes upon himself an impossible task on a whimsical bet, just to prove himself. The character portrayed here is almost inhumanly calm, composed, confident, unperturbed in the face of the most messy predicaments, clinical and reserved, yet extremely respectful, loving, humane and compassionate. This is his adventure to cover the circumference of the world in 80 days. Mind you these are the times when we didn't have flights and airports. He has to completely rely upon the technology of the era - sail and paddle boats and steamers through the choppy and un-mapped seas, hot air balloons, incomplete or non-functional railway lines and the back of the beasts in more exotic locations. The story throws enough seemingly impossible-to-tackle situations at the protagonist and he addresses them every single time with a most novel and un-imaginable solution. The story involves human, natural and technological challenges at every step, yet our determined hero goes on, and in the the middle of it all, finds time for love too.

Chegou dentro da data prevista e bem embalado.

早く届いてよかった。まだ読んでないけど楽しみにしている。。。

This is a classic read, prompted by the tv series recently and ... no surprise in a way, as the introduction as always states 'based on ...', but this was a very loose relationship indeed: the series lacked continuity except in the most liberal sense and depended [it seemed] overmuch on using the same characters and frame for the episodes, and the same for the film. Having said that, all three were enjoyable in their different ways - just the book stands up better for me.

Fantastic book. Thanks a lot