All 37 chapters — from the Reform Club wager to the proposal in Saville Row.
Around the World in Eighty Days moves in five geographic phases. Chapters 1–5 are London: the character of Fogg, the wager, the departure. Chapters 6–15 are the eastward journey through Suez, Bombay, and Calcutta, including the rescue of Aouda. Chapters 16–24 are the sea voyage through the China seas to Japan, with Passepartout lost and found. Chapters 25–33 are North America: San Francisco, the transcontinental railroad, New York, and the Atlantic crossing. Chapters 34–37 are London again: the arrest, the release, the resolution. The pace accelerates throughout; the final chapters move faster than any earlier section.
Fogg, the wager, the departure, and Detective Fix.
Phileas Fogg, gentleman of perfect regularity, dismisses his valet for shaving water at the wrong temperature and immediately hires Jean Passepartout. Passepartout believes he has found the ideal quiet post.
Passepartout explores Fogg's house and finds it perfectly organized and entirely without surprises. He is charmed by its regularity and concludes his master is the most predictable man alive.
A newspaper article claims an eighty-day circumnavigation is possible. Fogg bets twenty thousand pounds — half his fortune — that he can do it and announces they leave tonight.
Fogg and Passepartout depart Saville Row with minimal luggage and twenty thousand pounds in a carpet bag. They board the Continental Express at Charing Cross with seconds to spare.
The wager becomes public. England bets against Fogg. The Bank of England robbery investigation produces a description matching Fogg. The telegraph reaches Suez.
Fix appears, Passepartout visits a temple, an elephant is purchased, and Aouda is rescued.
Detective Fix spots Fogg at Suez, is convinced he is the Bank robber, and attempts to get an arrest warrant from the British consul. The consul cannot issue one without authority from London. Fix must stall.
Fix examines Fogg's passport and concludes that its legitimacy proves nothing — a skilled criminal would have a legitimate one. He remains convinced.
Fix befriends Passepartout on the Suez quay. Passepartout talks freely about everything — the wager, the route, his master's character. Fix learns the complete itinerary without Passepartout suspecting anything.
The Mongolia arrives in Bombay two days ahead of schedule. Fogg notes the gain. Fix watches. Passepartout is charmed by the ocean, the ports, and everything Fogg does not stop to examine.
Passepartout enters a Hindu temple with his shoes on. He is beaten and ejected. The incident will cost him a prison sentence later in the journey.
The Indian railway ends fifty miles short of Allahabad. Fogg purchases an elephant for two thousand pounds and sets off cross-country with Passepartout and General Cromarty.
The party encounters a suttee procession in the jungle. A widow is to be burned at dawn on her husband's pyre. Fogg notes the fact without visible reaction and they camp nearby.
Fogg resolves to rescue the widow. Passepartout disguises himself as the dead rajah. At the moment of immolation he rises from the pyre. The priests scatter. Fogg takes Aouda's hand and runs.
The group reaches the railway at Allahabad. Fogg calculates that the rescue has not cost the margin. Aouda will travel to Hong Kong. Cromarty disembarks. The train heads for Calcutta through the Ganges valley, which Fogg does not look at.
In Calcutta, Passepartout is arrested for the Bombay temple incident. Fix has arranged the warrant. Fogg posts two thousand pounds bail and they leave for Hong Kong with no intention of returning for the trial.
Hong Kong, the opium den, a small boat in a gale, and Passepartout lost in Yokohama.
The Rangoon crosses the Bay of Bengal and the China Sea toward Hong Kong. Aouda begins to understand her unusual protector. Fix waits for the warrant that still has not arrived.
Passepartout notices that Fix has been on every ship since Suez and confronts him. Fix gives a plausible explanation. Passepartout is not satisfied but cannot prove anything.
A gale slows the Rangoon in the China Sea. Fogg calculates that arriving late in Hong Kong will cost him the Carnatic to Japan. He is behind schedule for the first time.
Fix gets the warrant in Hong Kong and tells Passepartout he is pursuing Fogg for bank robbery. Passepartout refuses to help. Fix drugs him in an opium den. Fogg misses the Carnatic.
Fogg misses the Carnatic. Fix reveals himself and claims to be abandoning the pursuit. Fogg hires a small schooner, the Tankadere, to chase the Yokohama steamer via Shanghai.
The Tankadere fights a gale in the China Sea and reaches Shanghai just as the Yokohama steamer is leaving the harbor. Bunsby fires a signal cannon. The steamer turns back.
Passepartout wakes on the Carnatic with no money and no master. He arrives in Yokohama penniless and must improvise until Fogg appears.
Passepartout joins a Yokohama acrobat troupe to survive. During a performance, he spots Fogg in the audience. They are reunited.
Twenty-two days on the Pacific aboard the General Grant. Fogg calculates and recalculates the margin. They arrive in San Francisco on schedule.
San Francisco, the transcontinental, the Sioux attack, and the Atlantic crossing.
One day in San Francisco. Passepartout falls through dock planks. A political meeting becomes a brawl. Fogg defends Aouda. They make the evening train.
The transcontinental train departs San Francisco. Seven days across the continent. Passepartout looks at everything. Fogg looks at his schedule.
A Mormon missionary delivers a history lecture on the train. Passepartout listens with genuine interest. Fogg sleeps.
Two passengers prepare to duel on the moving train. Passepartout cannot stop it. The duel is interrupted by a Sioux attack on the train.
The Sioux attack and take three prisoners, including Passepartout, when they decouple the engine and drive it away. The carriages coast to a stop at Fort Kearney.
Fogg leads the rescue party, knowing it will cost him the wager. He recovers Passepartout. A wind-powered sledge over the frozen plains gives him a chance to make up the time.
Fix, who cannot arrest Fogg in America, offers to help him get home quickly. Both of them need Fogg in England. Fix helps. They board for New York.
In New York, the Liverpool steamer has sailed. Fogg hires the trading ship Henrietta, whose captain agrees to Bordeaux. Fogg has another plan.
Fogg locks the captain below, redirects to Liverpool, runs out of coal, buys the ship from the captain, and burns the wooden parts to get to Queenstown. He arrives with a bare hull and makes London by train.
Arrest, release, and the thing the wager was actually about.
Fix arrests Fogg in Liverpool. Three hours later the real bank robber is arrested in Edinburgh. Fogg is released — but has lost three hours he did not have. He believes the wager is lost.
Fogg returns to Saville Row, believes he has lost the wager and most of his fortune, and sits in his study doing nothing. Passepartout understands that this is not the same man who left eighty days ago.
The newspapers clear Fogg's name and report Strand's arrest. The betting market revives. Passepartout, reading the paper, realizes something about the calendar and runs to tell Fogg.
Passepartout discovers they have gained a day by traveling east. It is Saturday, not Sunday. Fogg runs to the Reform Club and wins the wager with seconds to spare. He returns and proposes to Aouda.