Vit Babenco's Reviews > Around the World in Eighty Days

Challenge and adventure… The concept of Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days is one of the most original in literature… The tale is entertaining and chivalric…
By hook or by crook the goal must be achieved… By steamship or by elephant… No matter what, move forward!

The elephant was led in and got ready without delay. The Parsee knew the job of mahout, or elephant driver, inside out. He covered the elephant’s back with a sort of saddle-cloth and set up, one on each side of the animal’s flanks, two rather uncomfortable-looking baskets.
Phileas Fogg paid the Indian in banknotes, which came out of his famous bag. It really looked as if they were being surgically removed from Passepartout’s insides!

The books of our childhood stay with us for life.