His most popular book, Around the World in Eighty Days (1873), was atypically realistic: its English hero, the imperturbable Phileas Fogg, and his French servant, Passepartout, circle the globe by ...

Gary Lowe, 66, and his wife, Pam, 69, have long been adventurous travelers, but two years ago the couple challenged themselves to the ultimate trip: circumnavigating the globe—solo. Their inspiration ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Phileas Fogg went around the track in one way on Friday. Breaking from the No. 1 post, jockey Kendrick Carmouche got Phileas Fogg, named for the protagonist in the Jules Verne novel ...

In 1889, a journalist named Nellie Bly, inspired by Jules Verne’s popular novel Around the World in Eighty, decided to turn ...