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Phileas Fogg, a man that very rarely changes his schedule, takes a wager that he can successfully travel around the world in 80 days. Phileas accepted the wager from his friends at the reform club that he could travel around the world from London to London in just 80 days. It is 1870, so traveling is done mostly by boat and train. He takes his newfound French servant, Passepartout, and 20,000 pounds to embark on a journey across the world. Unknown to Phileas, he is wanted for a robbery at a bank in London and is chased by a detective named fix, which will only cause problems later.

As they begin their journey, it continues quite smoothly for the first few days, until they enter India. Passepartout become curious with the Hindu temple and walks in with his shoes on, not knowing that this was strictly forbidden by Indian Priests and British officials. They are later hauled into court and in order to free Passepartout, Phileas must pay a large sum of money. They continue through the jungles of Calcutta using a rented elephant and guide. This area wan not controlled by the government and contained tribes that world sacrifice the wives of the chief priests once the chief had passed on. Phileas would not let the happen to the girl that passed them, so he devised a
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The conductor is afraid to cross the unstable bridge and the closest train is six hours away. They come up with the plan to cross as fast as they can and they just barely make it before the bridge collapses. They have another day of easy traveling until crossing the Wyoming plains. They are attacked by Sioux Indians and Passepartout is forced to disconnect the train from the cars and the train speeds away out of control. They fight off the Indians, but Passepartout and two others are missing. A band of soldier and Phileas go out to find him and fight the Indians to free the

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