Category: around the world in 80 days

PBS Premieres an Updated ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ in Masterpiece Series

Ever since it was published in 1872, Jules Verne’s great adventure novel has delighted readers with its cavalcade of cameos for faded movie stars. At least that is the impression you would get from the Oscar winning 1956 movie. Regrettably, the cast of hundreds has not aged nearly as well as that of “It’s a Mad,…


Becoming an Adventurer: A Look at ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’

Time to break free of the winter doldrums. Let’s put aside today’s headlines and instead travel the world. We’ll spend a few days in rural India, pay a quick visit to Singapore, cross the plains and mountains of the American West by rail and on sleds driven by sails, and beat our way across the…