Question: summary of the novel around the world in 80 days

title: Around the World in Eighty Days
text: The most obvious took place between 1869 and 1871 , when American William Perry Fogg traveled the world , describing his tour in a series of letters to The Cleveland Leader newspaper , entitled , Round the World : Letters from Japan , China , India , and Egypt ( 1872 ) . But long before Fogg , Greek traveller Pausanias ( c. 100 AD ) wrote a work that was translated into French in 1797 as Voyage autour du monde ( `` Around the World '' ) . Verne 's friend Jacques Arago had written a very popular Voyage autour du monde in 1853 . In 1869 -- 70 the idea of travelling around the world reached critical popular attention when three geographical breakthroughs occurred : the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in America ( 1869 ) , the linking of the Indian railways across the sub-continent ( 1870 ) , and the opening of the Suez Canal ( 1869 ) . In 1871 appeared Around the World by Steam , via Pacific Railway , published by the Union Pacific Railroad Company , and an Around the World in A Hundred and Twenty Days by Edmond Planchut . In early 1870 , the Erie Railway Company published a statement of routes , times , and distances detailing a trip around the globe of 23,739 miles in seventy - seven days and twenty - one hours .