Passepartout's Family Watch
In a book that's so focused on time, Passepartout's watch is a definite talking point. Verne takes time out to discuss and illustrate Passepartout's watch and how important it is to him.From the ve...
Country Gents
An American, an Englishman, and a Frenchman walk into a bar… Yep, it's the start of a bad joke, to be sure. But Jules Verne doesn't use his characters' fatherlands to get us to the punch line—e...
Steamships, Railroads, and Prime Meridians
It's no secret that Jules Verne was a total geek for science. He had an uncanny ability to look into the future and imagine inventions that would, in time, actually come to be. So it makes a lot of...
Aouda
Aouda's definitely the jewel of India, but there's a whole lot of speculation that could be made about Aouda's role in Around the World in Eighty Days. Showing up first as a damsel in distress, we'...