Penguin Readers, 2000. — 39 p.Can Phileas Fogg go round the world in eighty days? It is 1872,
thirty years before the first aeroplane. The railways are new in
America and there are faster ships with better engines. The Times
newspaper says the journey is possible. It gives a timetable, but is
the timetable right? There can be problems in every country in
the world. Then Phileas Fogg will lose his bet, twenty thousand
pounds. And Phileas Fogg doesn’t know that somebody wants to
stop him before the end of his journey.
