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January 01, 2007: Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne is a story about a man named Phileas Fogg who lived by a routine schedule. Fogg had just fired his man servant for not bringing him his water for shaving at the right temperature of 86 degrees Fahrenheit but instead at 84 degrees Fahrenheit. Fogg gets another man servant named Jean Passepartout who is going to travel around the world in eighty days with Mr. Fogg but does not know it yet. The bet all started when Phileas Fogg...
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The British actor/humorist of Monty Python fame describes his 80-day journey around the world by train, taxi, camel, dogsled, cargo ship, and balloon following in the footsteps of the inimitable Phileas Fogg. "This ishis story, and he tells it very well... Longtime fans will be delighted to spend time in his company; listeners who don't know his work may discover a new friend."AudioFile
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In 1872 Phileas Fogg wagers that he can circle the earth in 80 days.
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The Action-packed Adventure Classic Chronicles The Adventures Of English Gentleman Phileas Fogg And His Manservant, Passepartout, On Their Journey Around The World In The Late Nineteenth Century. Book Available. - By Jules Verne,david Colacci (narrator)
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Around the World in 80 Days
Crossing seventeen borders and meeting innumerable challenges, he saw Venice from the back of a rubbish barge, rode around the Pyramids on a camel called Michael, and was attacked by a cockatoo in Hong Kong - these amongst many other adventures.
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"Monty Python" comedian/writer Michael Palin takes up the famous challenge: to travel around the world in only 80 days. Air travel is forbidden, and wherever possible he uses the same routes and transport as Jules Verne's fictional hero, Phileas Fogg, meeting many interesting characters en route. As he races across continents and against the clock, Michael's charm and ingenuity delights the armchair traveler. Episodes include: Disc 1: "The Challenge", "Arabian Frights" and "Ancient Mariners" Disc...
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Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days
Monty Python comedian/writer Michael Palin takes up the famous challenge: to travel around the world in only 80 days. Air travel is forbidden, and wherever possible he uses the same routes and transport as Jules Verne's fictional hero, Phileas Fogg, meeting many interesting characters en route. As he races across continents and against the clock, Michael's charm and ingenuity delights the armchair traveler.
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Around the World in 80 Days
Best known to Americans as the former star of Monty Python's Flying Circus , author and adventurer Michael Palin circumnavigates the globe following in the famous footsteps of Jules Verne's fictional hero Phileas Fogg. By camel, train, dog-sled, dhow, and container ship he races against the clock. Palin shares his adventures and misadventures - from a garbage-collecting gondola in Venice to his close shave in Bombay with snakes and mongoose - with humor and delight. His boundless curiosity...
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The sounds of a chugging steam engine and the orchestral movie-score strains that open this program set the stage for Dale's top-drawer performance of this much-loved adventure story. As one could set a clock by eccentric Phileas Fogg's daily routine, Fogg shocks everyone when he bets his personal fortune that he can complete the trip proposed in the book's title and then sets off on the wild trip. Listeners can almost envision a twinkle in Dale's eye as he delivers the lines of Fogg's traveling...
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Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days
Monty Python comedian/writer Michael Palin trys his luck at travel, and not just any travel, the ultimate excursion around the world in only 80 days. Not allowed to travel by air, Palin attempts the journey using the same routes that Phileas Fogg, Jules Verne's fictional hero employed whenever possible. It's a race against time, a race that will leave you laughing and intrigued.
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Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days
Monty Python comedian/writer Michael Palin takes up the famous challenge: to travel around the world in only 80 days. Air travel is forbidden, and wherever possible he uses the same routes and transport as Jules Verne's fictional hero, Phileas Fogg, meeting many interesting characters en route. As he races across continents and against the clock, Michael's charm and ingenuity delights the armchair traveler.
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Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days
Availability: Usually ships in 5-14 days. Close Caption: No. Region Code: 1. UPC: 794051289322. Catalog #: DV2425282. Languages: English Dolby Digital (Primary). Features:. Interview(s): An exclusive interview with Michael Palin (19 mins).
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Around the World in 80 Days (Unabridged)
The rules were simple. He had to make the journey in 80 days using only forms of transport that would have been available to Fogg. And so, complete with visas, running shoes, an inflatable globe, and sound advice from Alan Whicker, Michael Palin began his incredible journey.
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Around the World in 80 Days (Classic fiction)
Audio CD: 30 pages. Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks; 1995-03. Label: Naxos Audiobooks. Format: Abridged, Audiobook. Studio: Naxos Audiobooks. ISBN: 9626340339. Average Customer Review: based on 83 reviews. Sales Rank in Books: #1109902.
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These reproducible novel-workbooks and accompanying audiobooks have been adapted into 10 short chapters that will excite your struggling readers. Key words are defined and used in context. Each 72-page workbook includes preview questions by chapter plus a variety of reading skills activities. Audiobooks are word-for-word reading directly from the chapter pages with background music . Either component may be used independently.
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Around the World in 80 Days
MICHAEL PALIN's diaries begin in the late 1960s and tell how Python emerged and triumphed. Enjoying an unlikely cult status early on, the group then proceeded to tour in the United States and Canada.. See full description...
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January 01, 2007: Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne is a story about a man named Phileas Fogg who lived by a routine schedule. Fogg had just fired his man servant for not bringing him his water for shaving at the right temperature of 86 degrees Fahrenheit but instead at 84 degrees Fahrenheit. Fogg gets another man servant named Jean Passepartout who is going to travel around the world in eighty days with Mr. Fogg but does not know it yet. The bet all started when Phileas Fogg...
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Synopsis: The complete set of Michael Palin's journey around the world.
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Michael Palin: Around The World In 80 Days (DVD)
"Not until dawn on the day of departure did a full-blown, gut-tightening panic set in. I had volunteered to deliver these documentaries, (having only done one in my life before), against the clock, with absolutely no script at all, on a route that might change without warning. Nothing like it had been attempted before." - Michael Palin
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Monty Python comedian/writer Michael Palin takes up the famous challenge: to travel around the world in only 80 days. Air travel is forbidden, and wherever possible he uses the same routes and transport as Jules Verne's fictional hero, Phileas Fogg, meeting many interesting characters en route. As he races across continents and against the clock, Michael's charm and ingenuity delights the armchair traveler.
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By: Jules Verne (Author), Rod Espinosa (Author) and Rod Espinosa (Illustrator)
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Michael Palin has taken on the task of duplicating Phileas Fogg's feat by attempting to circumnavigate the globe, beginning and ending at the Reform Club in London, in eighty days, using no air travel. He meets Python fans in Greece, eats snake in China, and generally goes from one adventure to another, all the while fighting to make his deadline.
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Actors: Michael Palin, Don Bannerman, Chris Collins, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, See more
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