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Verne’s most outrageous “voyage extraordinaire” - a hasty world tour taken up on a gentlemen’s club wager! Mr. Phileas Fogg, master of precision, enters into the strangest wager ever made over the whist table - that he will circle the globe in 80 days. The news astounds Jean Passepartout, sometime wandering minstrel, bareback rider, funambulist, gymnast, and fireman, now turned valet to Mr. Fogg in the expectancy of a quiet and well-regulated life. For the next 80 days, their lives are anything but quiet or well-regulated.

Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a wager set by his friends at the Reform Club.

La verdadera historia de La Vuelta al Mundo en 80 Días es una divertida comedia sobre las aventuras viajeras del joven Felipe y su atolondrado acompañante Picaporte. Inspirado en la obra de Julio Verne, Felipe- un joven apasionado por los libros - se empeña en ganar una insólita apuesta que hace a su padre: es posible dar la vuelta al mundo en 80 días con los medios de transporte del siglo XIX.