An example is held in the Princeton University Graphic Arts Collection. Me and Gilma sailed across to this little gem in the Caribbean. We have the Isle of Man and Mexico has the Isle of Women (Isla Mujeres).

But Fix, a police inspector, has to keep close track of the travellers, as they are suspected to be the thiefs of the Bank of England. Jean Passepartout, his French servant, is going with him. The game is flanked left and right by advertisements for other publications by Hetzel and Didot. OCTOBER 23rd, 2021 After 19 long pandemic months, it felt important to restart this journey in a respectful way. Accept the challenge and go around the world in 80 days The bet is on: Phileas Fogg, british gentleman, is to make it around the world in 80 days. This is surrounded by an around-the-world game consisting of 80 panels arrayed in two concentric circles, each panel representing a different destination, person or event encountered by Phinehas Fogg on his journey. In Around the World in 80 Days, will you manage to prove your innocence in the eyes of the world while achieving the feat of going around the world in 80. Said to have been issued in 1875 (see Ciompi and Seville), this is one of several 19 th-century games adapting Verne’s imaginative novel to the “Game of the Goose.”Īt the center of the advertisment is a map of the world showing Fogg’s route, apparently identical to the map that appeared in the novel. A large and striking game poster, issued in or around 1873 to promote Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days and other publications by the Paris firms of Hetzel and Cie.

Around the world in 80 days games