Phileas Foog Journey

In how many days would Phileas Fogg make his journey around the world nowadays?

In how many days would Phileas Fogg make his journey around the world nowadays?

Introduction
We all have read or have heard about the book Around the world in eighty days in which his author Jules Verne tells the journey that the main character, Phileas Fogg, with his French manservant, Passepartout, do aroundthe world. The history starts in London in around 1872 when the main character, Phileas Fogg, make a bet at the Reform Club stating that he can go around the world in just eighty days, the bet amounts to 20,000 pounds. Jules Verne tried with this book not just entertainthe audience but to make young people think about the world around them and the changes that have been happening in the last decades since the first revolution took place and them with the second revolution.
Context
The second industrial revolution or the first globalization took place between the 1840 to the 1914. We take the age of the 1840 as the beginning of this period because it’s thebeginning of the train and in 1860 the transport revolution settle down, steam power, canals, railroad, bridges, roads… emerged as new forms of transportation. There was also a communication revolution with the telegraph, a new machine which connected the whole world and helped inthe development of transports. These achievements, the telegraph and the new transports, produced a huge increased in migration, waves of people moved around the world between countries looking for work and a new life and also people, wealthy people mostly, started to travel and to have interest in what is outside of its frontiers.We can say that the globalized world as we know it nowadays has its beginning in this period.
Phileas Fogg’s journey
Now to answer the question that we propounded at the beginning of the essay we are going to analyze the journey that Phileas Fogg and his manservant did to achieve their bet. Here we are going to show a table thatdescribes the parts of the journey and the days that they spent to do them:

Route | Transport | Days |
From London to Suez | Train and boat | 7 |
From Suez to Bombay | Boat | 10 |
From Bombay to Calcutta | Train | 6 |
From Calcutta to Hong-Kong (China) | Boat | 13 |
From Hong-Kong to Yokohama(Japan) | Boat | 6 |
From Yokohama to San Francisco | Boat | 22 |
From San Francisco toNew York | Train | 7 |
From New York to London | Train and boat | 9 |
TOTAL | 80 |

Let analyze each part of the journey:
* 1st From London to Suez, 7 days: The first step that Phileas Fogg with his manservant did was to take a train from London to Dover in October the second.
-This railroad route was constructed by the South Eastern Railway Company, and this company existed since 1836 until 1922. The construction of this line started in 1838 and it finished in 1844. This railroad was a passenger rather than a freight railway and it has a length of about seventy eight miles.They left their house in London at around eight o’clock, they took a train to Dover and there they took a boat to Calais (France) that left at eleven o’clock. ----Calais is a town and a major ferry port at the north of France, Calais overlooks the Strait of Dover, the narrowest point in the English Channel, there are just twenty one miles between those two points. Calais is one...