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Gr 3–8—Phelan presents three true stories of around-the-world adventures inspired by Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days that, even though they were undertaken in the late 1800s, would be hardly less arduous today. Thomas Stevens, Joshua Slocum, and Nellie Bly saw the world from the seat of a bicycle, aboard a 36-foot sloop, and via trains and ships, respectively. The small, specific pleasures of Phelan's work—the faces of miners emerging from the darkness as they conv...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

"It all began, as many great adventures begin, with a story," and Phelan begins this handsome graphic novel with Phileas Fogg at London's Reform Club in 1872, challenging members with his proposition: to tour the world in eighty days. Thus, Jules Verne's classic novel becomes the springboard for three remarkable narratives about real-life journeys in the spirit of Phileas Fogg. In 1884, Thomas Stevens was a miner with ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Jules Verne's classic becomes the springboard for three remarkable narratives about real-life around-the-world journeys: Thomas Stevens'...Log In or Sign Up to Read More