Editing Around the World in Eighty Days (section)

==Real-life imitations==
Following publication in 1873, various people attempted to follow Fogg's fictional circumnavigation, often within self-imposed constraints:
* In 1889, [[Nellie Bly]] undertook to travel around the world in 80 days for her newspaper, the ''[[New York World]]''. She managed to do the journey within 72 days, meeting Verne in Amiens. Her book ''[[Around the World in Seventy-Two Days]]'' became a best seller.
* In 1889, [[Elizabeth Bisland]] working for the ''[[Cosmopolitan (magazine)|Cosmopolitan]]'' became a rival to Bly, racing her across the world to try to achieve the global crossing first.<ref name="walker1">Roggenkamp, Karen S.H. [http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/kroggenkamp/bisland.html Dignified Sensationalism: Elizabeth Bisland, Cosmopolitan, and Trips Around the World] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100112042246/http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/kroggenkamp/bisland.html |date=January 12, 2010 }}, ''presented at'' "Writing the Journey: A Conference on American, British, & Anglophone Writers and Writing" 
University of Pennsylvania, June 10–13, 1999</ref>
* In 1894, [[George Griffith]] carried out a publicity stunt on behalf of [[C. Arthur Pearson]] by circumnavigating the world in 65 days, from 12 March to 16 May.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Harris-Fain |first=Darren |title=British Fantasy and Science-fiction Writers Before World War I |date=1997 |publisher=Gale Research |isbn=978-0-8103-9941-9 |series=Dictionary of Literary Biography No. 178 |pages=106 |language=en |chapter=George Griffith |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/britishfantasysc178harr/page/106/mode/2up}}</ref><ref name="WarriorsOfIf195–196">{{Cite book |last=Moskowitz |first=Sam |title=Strange Horizons: The Spectrum of Science Fiction |date=1976 |publisher=Scribner |isbn=978-0-684-14774-1 |location=New York |pages=195–196 |chapter=War: Warriors of If |author-link=Sam Moskowitz |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/strangehorizonss0000mosk/page/196/mode/2up}}</ref> The tale of his journey was told in ''[[Pearson's Weekly]]'' in 14 parts between 2 June and 1 September 1894, bearing the title "How I Broke the Record Round the World".<ref name="WarriorsOfIf195–196" /><ref name="SFEPearsonsWeekly">{{Cite encyclopedia |year=2022 |title=Pearson's Weekly |encyclopedia=[[The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction]] |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/pearsons_weekly |access-date=2023-11-26 |author1-link=Mike Ashley (writer) |editor1-last=Clute |editor1-first=John |edition=4th |author1-last=Ashley |author1-first=Mike |editor1-link=John Clute |editor2-last=Langford |editor2-first=David |editor2-link=David Langford |editor3-last=Sleight |editor3-first=Graham |editor3-link=Graham Sleight}}</ref> It was later published in book form in 2008 under the title ''Around the World in 65 Days''.<ref name="SFEPearsonsWeekly" />
* In 1903, [[James Willis Sayre]], an American theatre critic and arts promoter, set a world record for circling the earth using public transport: 54 days, 9 hours and 42 minutes.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Flom |first=Eric |date=22 May 2002 |title=Sayre, James Willis (1877-1963) |url=https://www.historylink.org/File/3295 |access-date=3 March 2022 |website=History Link}}</ref>
* In 1908, [[Harry Bensley]], on a wager, set out to circumnavigate the world on foot wearing an iron mask. The journey was abandoned, incomplete, at the outbreak of [[World War I]] in 1914.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}
* In 1928, 15-year-old Danish [[Boy Scout]] [[Palle Huld]] travelled around the world by train and ship in the opposite direction to the one in the book. His trip was sponsored by a Danish [[newspaper]] and made on the occasion of the 100th birthday of [[Jules Verne]]. The trip was described in the book ''[[A Boy Scout Around the World]]''. It took 44 days. He took the [[Trans-Siberian Railway]] and did not go by [[India]].
* In 1984, [[Nicholas Coleridge]] emulated Fogg's trip, taking 78 days; he wrote a book titled ''Around the World in 78 Days''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nicholas David Coleridge |url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp58450/nicholas-david-coleridge |access-date=9 March 2022 |website=National Portrait Gallery}}</ref>
* In 1988, [[Monty Python]] member [[Michael Palin]] took on a similar challenge without using aircraft, as a part of a television [[Travel literature|travelogue]], called ''[[Around the World in 80 Days with Michael Palin]]''. He completed the journey in 79 days and 7 hours.
* Since 1993, the [[Jules Verne Trophy]] has been given to the boat that sails around the world without stopping and with no outside assistance in the shortest time.
* In 2009, twelve celebrities performed a [[Around the World in 80 Days (2009 TV series)|relay version of the journey]] for the BBC ''[[Children in Need]]'' charity appeal.
* In 2011, Brazilian businessman and TV host Álvaro Garnero and journalist José Antonio Ramalho made a bet with a pub owner in London to travel around the world in 80 days. The [[Record (TV network)]] TV series "50 by 1 - Around the World in 80 Days" followed their journey. Both Brazilians crossed the Atlantic and Pacific, USA, Canada, Alaska, Japan, South Korea, China, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic nations, Scandinavia, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and France to end again at the pub in 81 days (they arrived in London in 80 days but the pub was closed at night).
*In 2017, [[Mark Beaumont (cyclist)|Mark Beaumont]], a British cyclist inspired by Verne, set out to cycle across the world in 80 days. He completed the trip in 78 days, 14 hours and 40 minutes, after departing from Paris on 2 July 2017.  Beaumont beat the previous world record of 123 days, set by Andrew Nicholson, by cycling {{convert|18,000|mi|km|order=flip|abbr=on}} across the globe visiting Russia, Mongolia, China, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, US and a number of countries in Europe.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artemisworldcycle.com/|title=Mark Beaumont's Around the World in 80 Days {{!}} Artemis World Cycle|website=artemisworldcycle.com|access-date=9 August 2019|archive-date=21 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180421195954/http://www.artemisworldcycle.com/|url-status=usurped}}</ref>