![]() WHERE post_status='publish' AND wplc_posts. ![]() LEFT JOIN wplc_terms ON wplc_terms.term_id = LEFT JOIN wplc_term_taxonomy ON wplc_term_taxonomy.term_taxonomy_id = Wplc_posts.post_date, YEAR(wplc_posts.post_date) AS 'year',įROM wplc_posts LEFT JOIN wplc_term_relationships ON wplc_posts.ID = ![]() Wplc_posts.post_name, wplc_posts.post_title, wplc_posts.post_author, Phileas Fogg is one Jules Vernes best-known character, and interesting in his own right, but off of the top of my head, Id say if you say Jules Verne people. Or, you can buy both together for $38 (save $5 off the pair, and even more with combined shipping)! The paperback is $16 (plus shipping) and the hardcover is $27 (plus shipping). That is why p reorderers names appear in the book on the acknowledgments page –you make this book happen! (As long as you preorder by June 12th 2016.) As always, the print run with our Limited Editions is determined by the number of preorders. On the run and aided only by the unpredictable Count of Hentzau, Fogg must exert every iota of his famed intellect in order to unravel the mystery of the Heart of Osra – or face the utter annihilation of Eridaneans and Capelleans alike!Īvailable in both a Signed Limited Edition Hardcover and a Signed Limited Edition Trade Paperback. Drawn to the city of Streslau by a mysterious letter, Fogg finds himself accused of a crime he didn’t commit and caught between old allies and new enemies in a struggle for survival. A conflict which threatens to consume the few remaining survivors of the millennia-old struggle between Eridaneans and Capelleans, including Phileas Fogg. The war of shadows is over, but a new and more deadly conflict has begun in the Central European country of Ruritania. In 2014, Meteor House published Phileas Fogg and the War of Shadows, by Josh Reynolds, a sequel to Philip Jose Farmer’s The Other Log of Phileas Fogg. Now the adventures of Phileas Fogg continue in Phileas Fogg and the Heart of Osra, chronicling the further exploits of Jules Verne’s most iconic hero.ġ889. The Other Log of Phileas Fogg was only the beginning! Limited Edition of 125 Signed Hardcover copies Spoiler alert - he wins, and 140 years later, we still celebrate his victory.Limited Edition of 125 Signed Papberback copies To win the wager - and £20,000 - he must arrive back at the club on December 21, 1872, at the same time. Later that evening, on October 2, 1872, without wasting any time, Fogg departs London with his valet. The argument stems from an article in “The Daily Telegraph” which mentions the opening of a new railway section in India, with which it would then be theoretically possible to travel around the world in just 80 days. In the novel, when Phileas Fogg argues about the possibility of traveling around the globe in 80 days, he is challenged by his fellow club members to prove it. ![]() Or was it? Because of this coincidence of dates, people believed the journey was actually taking place in real time! It is no wonder that December 21 was chosen as the significant wager day in the book. This development in circumnavigation fascinated Verne, whose character was inspired by the real around-the-world journey of the adventurous American writer William Perry Fogg.īefore we knew it, the novel was serially published starting on December 21, 1872, while it was published in book form on January 30, 1973. Just before this time, by 1870, there were three major breakthroughs that made a tourist-like around-the-world journey possible for the first time. Two events had greatly affected him during this time - one was his father’s death, and the other was a public execution that greatly disturbed him. It was already a financially dire period for him, and he was called upon as coastguard during the war. Since it was written during the Franco-Prussian War in 18, it was a difficult time for Verne and his country. ![]() Set and published in 1872, Jules Verne’s adventure novel is certainly a classic, and with good reason. ![]()
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