# Around the World in Eighty Days — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne.

- [In which Phileas Fogg and Passepartout accept each other, the one as master, the other as man](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/i.md): Phileas Fogg, a wealthy and enigmatic member of the Reform Club, lives a meticulously ordered life at 7 Saville Row. After dismissing his servant James Forster for a trivial error, he hires Jean Passepartout, a Frenchman
- [II](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/ii.md): Passepartout explores the meticulously organized house on Saville Row, finding it perfectly suited to his desire for a calm, regular life. He observes Mr. Fogg's exacting habits and is impressed by his master's composure
- [In which a conversation takes place which seems likely to cost Phileas Fogg dear](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/iii.md): Phileas Fogg visits the Reform Club, where he learns of a bank robbery. During a game of whist, he argues that the world has grown smaller due to modern transportation and wagers £20,000 that he can circumnavigate the gl
- [IV](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/iv.md): Phileas Fogg returns home early from the Reform Club, astonishing his servant Passepartout by announcing they must leave for a journey around the world in eighty days. After quickly packing a small carpetbag with essenti
- [Chapter V: In which a new species of funds, unknown to the moneyed men, appears on 'Change.](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/v.md): The news of Phileas Fogg's wager spreads through London, sparking intense public debate and betting. Most newspapers dismiss the venture as madness, though a few support him. The Royal Geographical Society publishes a de
- [VI](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/vi.md): Detective Fix, waiting at Suez for the steamer Mongolia, discusses the bank robbery with the British consul and prepares to scrutinize passengers. When the Mongolia arrives, Passepartout approaches Fix to ask for the con
- [VII](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/vii.md): Detective Fix, convinced that Phileas Fogg is the bank robber, tries to prevent the consul from visaing Fogg's passport at Suez. Fogg and Passepartout arrive at the consulate, and Fogg insists on having his passport visa
- [In which Passepartout talks rather more, perhaps, than is prudent](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/viii.md): Fix, now convinced that Phileas Fogg is the bank robber, sends a dispatch to London for a warrant of arrest and boards the Mongolia to follow Fogg to India. Meanwhile, Passepartout, unaware of Fix's suspicions, chats fre
- [IX](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/ix.md): The Mongolia steams across the Red Sea and Indian Ocean toward Bombay, arriving two days early. Phileas Fogg remains impassive, spending his time eating and playing whist, while Passepartout enjoys the voyage and befrien
- [In which Passepartout is only too glad to get off with the loss of his shoes](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/x.md): Phileas Fogg and Passepartout arrive in Bombay, where Fogg attends to business and dines while Passepartout explores the city. Passepartout inadvertently enters a forbidden pagoda, is attacked by priests, and barely esca
- [In which Phileas Fogg secures a curious means of conveyance at a fabulous price](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xi.md): The train from Bombay stops unexpectedly at Kholby because the railway is unfinished, leaving a fifty-mile gap to Allahabad. After failing to find any other transport, Fogg purchases an elephant named Kiouni for an exorb
- [In which Phileas Fogg and his companions venture across the indian forests, and what ensued.](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xii.md): Phileas Fogg, Sir Francis Cromarty, Passepartout, and their Parsee guide travel through the Indian forests on an elephant named Kiouni to shorten their journey to Allahabad. They encounter a procession of Brahmins leadin
- [In which Passepartout receives a new proof that fortune favors the brave](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xiii.md): Phileas Fogg, Sir Francis Cromarty, Passepartout, and a Parsee guide plot to rescue Aouda, a young Parsee widow, from being forced onto her husband's funeral pyre. After failed attempts to enter the pagoda, Passepartout 
- [In which Phileas Fogg descends the whole length of the beautiful valley of the Ganges without ever thinking of seeing it.](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xiv.md): After rescuing Aouda from suttee, the party travels by elephant and train through India. Aouda recovers and accepts Fogg's offer to escort her to Hong Kong. Sir Francis Cromarty departs at Benares. Fogg reaches Calcutta 
- [XV](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xv.md): Phileas Fogg, Aouda, and Passepartout are arrested upon arrival in Calcutta for Passepartout's earlier desecration of a pagoda in Bombay. They are brought before Judge Obadiah, who sentences Passepartout to fifteen days'
- [XVI](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xvi.md): The Rangoon steams from Calcutta to Hong Kong. Aouda grows closer to Fogg, who remains stoic and precise. Fix, secretly aboard, plots to arrest Fogg in Hong Kong and considers using Aouda to create trouble. He reveals hi
- [Showing what happened on the voyage from Singapore to Hong Kong](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xvii.md): On the voyage from Singapore to Hong Kong, Passepartout grows suspicious of Fix's constant presence and concludes he is a spy sent by the Reform Club. Fix, in turn, suspects that Passepartout may have discovered his true
- [In which Phileas Fogg, Passepartout, and Fix go each about his business.](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xviii.md): The Rangoon encounters a severe storm, delaying its arrival in Hong Kong by twenty-four hours. Despite the setback, Fogg remains calm, while Fix is secretly pleased and Passepartout is furious. Upon arrival, Fogg learns 
- [XIX](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xix.md): In Hong Kong, Passepartout encounters Fix, who reveals he is a detective tracking Phileas Fogg for a bank robbery. Fix tries to enlist Passepartout's help to delay Fogg, but Passepartout refuses. Fix then drugs Passepart
- [XX](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xx.md): Mr. Fogg, unaware of Passepartout's drugged state, spends the day shopping with Aouda and preparing for their voyage. The next morning, he discovers that the Carnatic sailed early without him and that his servant is miss
- [XXI](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xxi.md): The Tankadere races against time to reach Shanghai before the Yokohama steamer departs. Despite a storm that slows them, Fogg remains calm. They signal the departing steamer with a distress flag and cannon shot, hoping t
- [XXII](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xxii.md): Passepartout wakes up on the Carnatic after being drugged in an opium den, realizes he missed informing Fogg about the changed sailing time, and finds himself alone in Yokohama without money. He explores the city, observ
- [XXIII](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xxiii.md): Passepartout, stranded and hungry in Japan, sells his European clothes for a Japanese costume and breakfasts. He then seeks passage to America and joins the Honourable Mr. Batulcar's acrobatic troupe as a clown, performi
- [XXIV](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xxiv.md): Phileas Fogg, Aouda, and Fix board the General Grant to cross the Pacific from Yokohama to San Francisco. Passepartout reunites with them after his opium-induced absence. Fix, now aboard, reveals his change of strategy t
- [XXV In which a slight glimpse is had of San Francisco](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xxv.md): Phileas Fogg, Aouda, and Passepartout arrive in San Francisco and spend the day exploring the city before their train to New York. They encounter a violent political rally between supporters of Camerfield and Mandiboy, d
- [XXVI](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xxvi.md): Phileas Fogg and his party travel across the United States on the Pacific Railroad, from San Francisco to Omaha. The chapter describes the construction and route of the transcontinental railway, the transformation of the
- [In which Passepartout undergoes, at a speed of twenty miles an hour, a course of Mormon history.](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xxvii.md): During the train journey towards the Great Salt Lake, Passepartout attends a lecture by Elder William Hitch on Mormon history, learning about Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, and the persecutions faced by the Latter Day Sain
- [Chapter XXVIII](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xxviii.md): The train is stopped by a signal warning that the bridge at Medicine Bow is unsafe. The engineer proposes crossing at full speed, and despite Passepartout's misgivings, the passengers agree. The train races across the cr
- [XXIX](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xxix.md): The train continues across the American plains. Phileas Fogg and Colonel Proctor quarrel over a game of whist and arrange a duel, but the train is attacked by a band of Sioux. During the attack, Passepartout heroically u
- [In Which Phileas Fogg Simply Does His Duty](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xxx.md): After a Sioux attack on the train, Passepartout and two other passengers are taken prisoner. Despite the risk to his wager, Fogg resolves to rescue them, stating 'It is my duty.' He leads a squad of soldiers from Fort Ke
- [In which Fix, the detective, considerably furthers the interests of Phileas Fogg](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xxxi.md): Phileas Fogg is twenty hours behind schedule after the Sioux attack. Detective Fix, now cooperating, suggests using a sail-sledge to cross the frozen plains from Fort Kearney to Omaha. Fogg hires Mudge and his sledge, an
- [In which Phileas Fogg engages in a direct struggle with bad fortune](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xxxii.md): Phileas Fogg, having missed the China in New York, finds no other steamer can get him to London in time to win his wager. He discovers the Henrietta, a trading vessel bound for Bordeaux, and after Captain Speedy initiall
- [In which Phileas Fogg shows himself equal to the occasion](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xxxiii.md): Phileas Fogg takes command of the Henrietta after bribing the crew and imprisoning Captain Speedy, steering the ship toward Liverpool instead of Bordeaux. Despite a storm and dwindling coal, Fogg buys the vessel from Spe
- [In which Phileas Fogg at last reaches London](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xxxiv.md): Phileas Fogg is arrested by Fix upon arriving in Liverpool, but is soon released when the real bank robber is caught. Fogg punches Fix, then rushes to catch a train to London, but arrives five minutes late, losing his wa
- [In which Phileas Fogg does not have to repeat his orders to Passepartout twice](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xxxv.md): Phileas Fogg returns home to Saville Row after losing his wager, calmly accepting his ruin. He sets his affairs in order, and in the evening, he speaks with Aouda, who offers to marry him. Fogg confesses his love, and th
- [In which Phileas Fogg’s name is once more at a premium on ’Change.](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xxxvi.md): The real bank robber, James Strand, is arrested in Edinburgh, clearing Phileas Fogg's name. Public opinion shifts, and Fogg's wager becomes a hot topic again. His five Reform Club friends anxiously await his return by th
- [In which it is shown that Phileas Fogg gained nothing by his tour around the world, unless it were happiness](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xxxvii.md): Phileas Fogg discovers that he has gained a day by traveling eastward, arriving in London on Saturday instead of Sunday, thus winning his wager. He marries Aouda, divides his remaining money between Passepartout and Fix,

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