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Clock & Watch Notebook — Inspired by Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days

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Part of the officially licensed Around the World in Eighty Days: The Victorian Age of Travel journal collection, the Clock & Watch Notebook is inspired by Jules Verne’s celebrated novel and a historic 1888 edition preserved in the British Library.

Time drives Phileas Fogg’s extraordinary wager to travel around the world in just 80 days. The design celebrates the clocks, schedules and precision that made Victorian global travel newly imaginable.

Made with specially selected 100gsm writing paper, this compact notebook transforms a literary treasure into practical, giftable stationery for plans, appointments and discoveries. Ideal for museum shops, bookstores, travel destinations and independent gift retailers.

The cultural source

Inspired by: Around the World in Eighty Days
Author: Jules Verne
British Library shelfmark: 1608/4408
Publication: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, London, 1888
Image source: The British Library collection

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