Around the World in Eighty Days

Jules Verne was born in 1828 in the town of Nantes, in France. When he was a boy, he ran away from home and tried to get on a ship to the Caribbean. The men on the ship found him and sent him back home. In 1847, Jules’s father sent him to Paris to study law. He did not like the subject very much and his father was angry when he left law school and started writing plays instead. [...]

When Phileas Fogg meets Passepartout

When Phileas Fogg makes a bet

When gentlemen are thieves

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When our adventurers rescue a woman from certain death

British Colonies1 in the East In 1600 the Queen of Englandw , Elizabeth I, created a company called the East India Company. The new company was very powerful and it controlled the buying and selling of everything that came from the East. This company was later called the British East India Company. By the 19th century, the company was very rich. [...]

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When Passepartout becomes an acrobat

When our friends risk their lives

When Phileas Fogg comes to the rescue

Sitting Bull Tatakea Iyotake, called ‘Sitting Bull’, was a famous Sioux Indian. His father was rich and had a lot of horses. At the age of ten he killed his first buffalo. When he was fourteen, the other members of his tribe named him ‘Sitting Bull’. A male buffalo is also called a bull and, like the animal, he was strong and slow to move until he was ready. Sitting Bull became the leader of all the Sioux Indians in the area. [...]

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When Phileas Fogg becomes the captain of a ship

When it is better to travel east

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