Around the World

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This is no round-up of the usual classics, like Harold Bloom’s hieratic inventory of The Western Canon.

Slocum's survival, on the other hand, is very much up in the air, and though there are no cheering crowds to greet his arrival in a new body of water and no news crews to record his every word, the drama is thick as he struggles to stay alive, battling the ghosts of his life at the same time as he struggles with the angry waves that threaten to destroy him. All 196 independent countries in the world and the 50 states in the USA have a spot in here for you to fill. Around the World in 80 Books takes us on a tour of the author’s global head, and while expanding our knowledge it enlarges our capacity for fellow-feeling.A list of sources, most of them primary accounts by the travelers themselves, appears at the end of the book. The washed-out tones of the artwork lend the book an old-timey feel as well, as if we're actually looking at photographs of the era, and the panel layout is easy to follow. In 1889, pioneer reporter Nellie Bly embarked on a global race against time that assumed the heights of spectacle, ushering in the age of the American celebrity. The tale of his journey was told in Pearson's Weekly in 14 parts between 2 June and 1 September 1894, bearing the title "How I Broke the Record Round the World". He includes his own snapshots of the pyramids in Egypt, the desert fortress at Masada, and some Mayan temples in the Mexico jungle.

Ralf the dog's long body has always been a hindrance - until the day a fire sweeps through his home.Inheriting this evangelism, Damrosch sees travel as a mental and moral challenge, not Phileas Fogg’s brisk experiment in abbreviating space and accelerating time. The novel was adapted twice by Orson Welles for his Mercury Theatre broadcasts, 23 October 1938 (60 minutes) and 7 June 1946 (30 minutes). Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passepartout. After a brief intro utilizing the famous scene from "Around the World in 80 Days" in which the book's hero Phineas Fogg makes his wager regarding his epic journey, the book launches into three different stories, dividing the book into three segments. Each of these strange and true tales - populated by self-mummifying monks, tree-climbing goats and ever-so-slightly radioactive nuts - is illustrated by Lucille Clerc, taking the reader on a journey that is as informative as it is beautiful.