<Li> In 2017, 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 . He departed from Paris on July 2, 2017 . Beaumont smashed the previous world record of 123 days set by Andrew Nicholson, by cycling 18,000 miles across the globe visiting Russia, Mongolia, China, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA and a host of countries in Europe . </Li> <P> The idea of a trip around the world within a set period had clear external origins and was popular before Verne published his book in 1873 . Even the title Around the World in Eighty Days is not original . Several sources have been hypothesized as the origins of the story . </P> <P> The most obvious took place between 1869 and 1871, when American William Perry Fogg traveled the world, describing his tour in a series of letters to The Cleveland Leader newspaper, entitled, Round the World: Letters from Japan, China, India, and Egypt (1872). But long before Fogg, Greek traveller Pausanias (c. 100 AD) wrote a work that was translated into French in 1797 as Voyage autour du monde ("Around the World"). Verne's friend Jacques Arago had written a very popular Voyage autour du monde in 1853 . In 1869--70 the idea of travelling around the world reached critical popular attention when three geographical breakthroughs occurred: the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in America (1869), the linking of the Indian railways across the sub-continent (1870), and the opening of the Suez Canal (1869). In 1871 appeared Around the World by Steam, via Pacific Railway, published by the Union Pacific Railroad Company, and an Around the World in A Hundred and Twenty Days by Edmond Planchut . In early 1870, the Erie Railway Company published a statement of routes, times, and distances detailing a trip around the globe of 23,739 miles in seventy - seven days and twenty - one hours . </P> <P> Another early reference comes from the Italian traveler Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri . He wrote a book in 1699 that was translated into French: Voyage around the World or Voyage du Tour du Monde (1719, Paris). The novel documents his trip as one of the first Europeans to circle the world for pleasure rather than profit, using publicly available transportation . Gemelli Careri provides rich accounts of seventeenth - century civilization outside of Europe . These include Persia during the Ottoman Empire, Hindustan during the reign of Aurungzebe, the Chinese Lantern Festival and the Great Wall, and the native people of Meso - America . References to his books can be found in other historical publications like the Calcutta Review . </P>

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