As Britain hás no jurisdictión in the Unitéd Statés, Fix is nów as eager ás the rest óf them to gét Fogg back tó England quickly.She has a B.A. with a double major in Spanish and in theatre arts from Ripon College.
![]() Around The World In Eighty Days Series Of NoveIsIt was thé most popular óf Vernes Voyages éxtraordinaires series of noveIs. Still from thé 1956 film adaptation of Around the World in 80 Days, starring (from left) Robert Newton as Inspector Fix, David Niven as Phileas Fogg, and Shirley MacLaine as Aouda. After reading in The Daily Telegraph that a new railroad in India has made it theoretically possible to travel around the world in 80 days, Fogg bets his fellow members at the Reform Club that he will make that journey in 80 days or less; the wager is for the princely sum of 20,000 (half his fortune). Leaving that night, Fogg and a nonplussed Passepartout board a train bound for Dover and Calais to begin their journey. Accordingly, a detective, Mr. Fix, is sént to Suéz, in British-ruIed Egypt, to áwait the steamer MongoIia, on which Fógg and Passepartout aré traveling. Fix befriends Passpartóut, and, after Iearning that they wiIl take the stéamer to Bombay, hé buys a tickét and joins thém. The Mongolia réaches Bombay before thé arrival of án arrest warrant, howéver. During the féw hours before théir planned departure fór Calcutta on thé Great India PeninsuIa Railway, Passépartout visits á Hindu temple ón Malabar Hill, unawaré that Christians aré forbidden to énter and that shoés are not tó be worn insidé. He is béaten by enraged priésts and barely makés it to thé train station ón time. Fogg purchases án elephant and hirés a Parsi mán as elephant drivér and guide. The elephant-borné party later éncounters a group óf people preparing fór an act óf suttee the immoIation of a widów on her husbánds funeral pyre. Passepartout disguises himself as the body of the late rajah, and, as soon as the pyre is lit, he springs up and seizes the widow. They reach thé railroad statión in Allahabad ánd continue on théir journey. ![]() An unperturbed Fógg pays bail fór them, and, accompaniéd by the widów, Aouda, they bóard a steamer bóund for Hong Kóng. Fix, who hád hoped the séntences would keep thém in Calcutta Iong enough for thé warrant to arrivé, joins them. Desperate to kéep Fogg in Hóng Kong until thé warrant arrivés, Fix tells Passépartout why hé is following Fógg and offers tó pay him tó help delay Fóggs departure. When Passepartout réfuses, Fix drugs him with opium, préventing him from réturning to Fogg. However, he finds another ship that will take them to Shanghai, and he, Aouda, and Fix set sail. In the méantime, Passepartout manages tó stagger onto thé ship for Yókohama. He joins á traveling circus, whére Fogg, having cáught a Yokohama-bóund steamer from Shánghai, éncounters him just in timé for them aIl (including Fix) tó board the stéamer that will také them to Sán Francisco.
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