Question: summary of around the world in eighty days novel

title: Around the World in Eighty Days
text: In 1889 , Nellie Bly undertook to travel around the world in 80 days for her newspaper , the New York World . She managed to do the journey within 72 days , meeting Verne in Amiens . Her book Around the World in Seventy - Two Days became a best seller . In 1903 , James Willis Sayre , a Seattle theatre critic and arts promoter , set the world record for circling the earth using public transport : 54 days , 9 hours , and 42 minutes . In 1908 , Harry Bensley , on a wager , set out to circumnavigate the world on foot wearing an iron mask . The journey was abandoned , incomplete , at the outbreak of World War I in 1914 . In 1984 , Nicholas Coleridge emulated Fogg 's trip , taking 78 days , He wrote a book titled Around the World in 78 Days . In 1988 , Monty Python alumnus Michael Palin took a similar challenge without using aircraft as a part of a television travelogue , called Michael Palin : Around the World in 80 Days . He completed the journey in 79 days and 7 hours . Since 1993 , the Jules Verne Trophy is given to the boat that sails around the world without stopping and with no outside assistance , in the shortest time . In 2009 , twelve celebrities performed a relay version of the journey for the BBC Children In Need charity appeal . In 2014 , the Optimistic Traveler team consisting of Muammer Yilmaz and Milan Bihlmann completed the `` 80 Days Challenge '' , a trip around the world without using money , as a first step of their charity campaign for education in Haiti . They finished the journey in 79 days . In 2015 , a group of Italian travelers , Luigi Cavallito , Alessio Nicastro , Andrea Cavallo Perin , Andrea Dutto , and Didie Caria repeated the journey that Verne had inspired . The members of the group were all millennials born between the 1980s and 2000 ; the project aimed to describe the life , projects and dreams of that generation . They started their journey from the Reform Club on October 2 , 2015 and they came back to London on December 21 , 80 days later . They stopped in Paris , Turin , Athens , Cairo , Alexandria , Dubai , Mumbai , Kolkata , Hong Kong , Manila , Tokyo , Honolulu , San Francisco , New York and Dublin . In 2017 , Mark Beaumont , a British cyclist inspired by Verne , set out to cycle across the world in 80 days . He completed the trip in 78 days , 14 hours and 40 minutes . He departed from Paris on July 2 , 2017 . Beaumont smashed the previous world record of 123 days set by Andrew Nicholson , by cycling 18,000 miles across the globe visiting Russia , Mongolia , China , Australia , New Zealand , Canada , USA and a host of countries in Europe .