<P> Following publication in 1873, various people attempted to follow Fogg's fictional circumnavigation, often within self - imposed constraints: </P> <Ul> <Li> 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 . </Li> <Li> In 1903, James Willis Sayre, a Seattle theatre critic and arts promoter, set a world record for circling the earth using public transport: 54 days, 9 hours, and 42 minutes . </Li> <Li> 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 . </Li> <Li> In 1984, Nicholas Coleridge emulated Fogg's trip, taking 78 days, He wrote a book titled Around the World in 78 Days . </Li> <Li> In 1988, Monty Python alumnus Michael Palin took a similar challenge without using aircraft as a part of a television travelogue, called Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days . He completed the journey in 79 days and 7 hours . </Li> <Li> Since 1993, the Jules Verne Trophy is given to the boat that sails around the world without stopping and with no outside assistance, in the shortest time . </Li> <Li> In 2009, twelve celebrities performed a relay version of the journey for the BBC Children In Need charity appeal . </Li> <Li> In 2014, the Optimistic Traveler team consisting of Muammer Yilmaz and Milan Bihlmann completed the "80 Days Challenge", a trip around the world without using money, as a first step of their charity campaign for education in Haiti . They finished the journey in 79 days . </Li> <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, US and a host of countries in Europe . </Li> </Ul> <Li> 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 . </Li> <Li> In 1903, James Willis Sayre, a Seattle theatre critic and arts promoter, set a world record for circling the earth using public transport: 54 days, 9 hours, and 42 minutes . </Li>

Main characters of the book around the world in 80 days