Jules Verne

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   1869 – 1870Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seasauthor

   Jules Verne’s novel of Captain Nemo’s submarine Nautilus travelling round the world beneath the sea appeared in a magazine. The twenty thousand leagues (about 80,000 km) are not a depth but the distance the Nautilus travels.

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   1872Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Daysauthor

   Jules Verne’s novel, in which the London gentleman Phileas Fogg wagers he can circle the globe in eighty days, appeared in a newspaper — a story of the years when the Suez Canal and the transcontinental railroad had just opened.

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   1889 – 1890Nellie Bly’s 72-Day Trip around the Worldrelated figure

   The American journalist Nellie Bly, out to beat the fictional Fogg, travelled alone eastward around the world and returned in 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes — the fastest circuit yet.

People who appear alongside

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  Nellie Bly1864 – 1922

  American journalist famed for her undercover exposé of an insane asylum, who travelled alone around the world in 72 days in 1889–90

Themes this person appears in

• Around the World in Eighty Days1869 – 1890

  When the Suez Canal and the transcontinental railroad made it possible to circle the globe in months — Phileas Fogg’s eighty days in Jules Verne’s novel, and the reporter Nellie Bly who took up the challenge and went round in seventy-two

• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas1702 – 1958

  Jules Verne’s novel of Captain Nemo’s submarine Nautilus circling the world beneath the sea — the treasure ships of Vigo Bay, La Pérouse’s wrecks, the giant squid and the Atlantic cable behind it, and the people who really reached the South Pole and passed under the North Pole after the novel went there first