Showing posts with label Jules Verne. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jules Verne. Show all posts

20 August 2026

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Around the World in Eighty Days

 

Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (='Around the World in Eighty Days´) is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in 1872. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a wager of £20,00. If you have read it, I am sure you remember the chapter when Fogg has to purchase an elephant because the railway line to Calcutta is incomplete...

Verne is  a favourite author, but I cannot say that I get a lot of mail related to his works. This postcard was sent by Laura (the UK).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
August theme: TRAVELLING
Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

25 July 2021

Sunday Stamps | 20,000 Leagues


I have got two of these Hungarian stamps, dedicated to Captain Nemo and the 150th Anniversary of the publication of Jules Verne's novel Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea.


The stamps were issued on 5 April 2019. This is the 4-stamps sheet:


I thought these stamps would fit in today's Sunday Stamps, dedicated to Transportation.