Around the World in Eighty Days
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Around the World in Eighty Days
| Full title | Around the World in Eighty Days (Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) |
|---|---|
| Author | Jules Verne |
| Published | 1872 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | The one Verne with no invented technology: Phileas Fogg bets half his fortune that the world’s newly completed rail and steamship network can be circled in eighty days — the most infrastructure-minded novel on the list, a story whose entire plot is a timetable. |
Around the World in Eighty Days
Where I heard about it
- The a16z infrastructure team — on the a16z Infra Reading List, in Sci-fi — Classics, A tier, under Jules Verne’s selected works. Their note on it: “after the publication of Around the World in Eighty Days, several newspaper reporters did, in fact, manage to go around the world in less than 80 days.”
Connections
- a16z Infra Reading List — where this is listed, in the classics tier.
- Jules Verne — the author.
- Journey to the Center of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea — the other three Verne titles on the list.
- Science Fiction — the genre, though this book contains none of it.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.