Around the World in Eighty Days Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
1873 novel by Jules Verne
About Around the World in Eighty Days
Unlike much of Verne's work,Around the World in Eighty Daysis not a work of science fiction. Widespread deployment ofsteam poweron land and sea was slashing travel times on an unprecedented scale in the mid to late 1800s; an intercity journey by stagecoach that used to take a week was often completed same-day by rail. Advances such as the ceremonial last spike in a first transcontinental railroad in theUnited States of America(May 10, 1869), construction of theSuez CanalinEgypt(1869) and linking ofIndianrailways across the sub-continent (1870) were ushering in an era where—at least for a wealthy few—passengers on common carriers would be able to readily purchase around-the-world journeys which formerly weremulti-year adventuresattempted on sailing ships by a hardy, pioneering minority. The
Around the World in Eighty Days Travel Guide Sections
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