During a discussion in a gentlemen"s club in London, the quiet and eccentric Phileas Fogg makes a bet crazy: sail around the world in eighty days. But we are in 1872. The calculation will stand there in the derailment of trains, slow boats ... and multiple contingencies? Combining the exotic tale of adventure and fast-paced detective novel, the most famous books of Jules Verne poetry exalts the great outdoors and technical modernity.