Around the World in 80 Days is a BBC television travel series first broadcast in 1989. It was presented by comedian and actor Michael Palin.The show was inspired by Jules Verne's classic novel Around the World in Eighty Days, in which a character named Phileas Fogg accepts a wager to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days or less. Palin was given the same deadline... Here's
Episode 1 - The Challenge.
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posted by twoleftfeet
on Nov 21, 2011 -
35 comments
The Jules Verne Collecting Resource. If you're a Verne fan or a book collector at all, this site is an absolute treasure. There are pictures of almost every single edition of
his works,
major and
minor, as well as everything even slightly Verne-related, including:
movie posters,
matchbooks,
autographs,
playing cards,
cards for stereoscopes,
postcards he sent,
board games, Jules Hetzel's excellent
covers and
posters for his work (
more here, and
this one is amazing),
the man himself, and god knows what else - pretty much everything.
If it's not here, it's
somewhere else, like the
extraordinary maps which adorned some editions, or the
virtual library with links to all of his works, the
many, many incredible illustrations therein, and even one
scanned manuscript (in French, obviously). Hope this makes somebody's day as much as it made mine.
posted by BlackLeotardFront
on Feb 25, 2007 -
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