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I liked this a lot better than I thought I would when I first started reading. I definitely thought it would focus more on the places they were traveling, rather than just the method of traveling. The story was interesting, though, and it was a quick, fun read.
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Amusing, in spite of the casual racism (perhaps inevitable in those days). This quote in particular made me frown:
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45.29% "Aouda fastened her great eyes, 'clear as the sacred lakes of the Himalaya', upon him; but the intractable Fogg, ...more
Between Omaha and the Pacific the railway crosses a territory which is still infested by Indians and wild beasts (Ch. 26, p. 155)Excuse me? Who were first, pray tell?
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What a delight to listen to Jim Dale's narration! It kept us enthralled while on a long car trip and had us frustrated that we didn't have access to a world map or globe. This would be the perfect book to begin a study of geography and world cultures. As the audio version points out in the afterward, Verne's characterizations of people and cultures are rarely accurate and lack any real depth, but we often found his descriptions quite funny. We probably wouldn't revisit this book if we were readi
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