His name is Claudius Bombarnac.

He works for a newspaper called the Twentieth Century, which assigns him to write about travel on the Grand Transasiatic Railway.

What a train route! It runs between Uzun Ada, Turkestan, and Peking, China. On the train he meets a person trying to beat the round-the-world record, a stowaway and other great characters.

But who will be the heroic protagonist of his article?

When a new car is added to the train filled with troops supposed guarding the remains of a great Mandarin and the train travels through lands filled with robber-barons, Bombarnac finds his fellow!

The name Jules Verne almost synonymous with nineteenth-century science fiction. But the French author wrote much more than science fiction!

And not just Around the World in Eighty Days.

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