Jules Verne the Sea", 1869); and "Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours" ("Around the World in Eighty Days"), which first appeared in "Le Temps" in 1872. Verne could now live on his writings. But most of his wealth came from the stage adaptations of "Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours" (1874) and "Michel Strogoff" (1876), which he wrote with Adolphe d'Ennery. In 1867, Verne bought a small ship, the "Saint-Michel", which he successively replaced with the "Saint-Michel II" and the "Saint-Michel III" as his financial situation improved. On board the "Saint-Michel III", he sailed around Europe. After his first novel,
Le Tour du Monde Le Tour du Monde Le Tour du monde, nouveau journal des voyages was a French weekly travel journal first published in January 1860. It also bore the name of "Le Tour du monde, journal des voyages et des voyageurs" (1895–1914). "Le Tour du monde" (Around the world) was created in January 1860 by Édouard Charton, designer of the "Magasin pittoresque", under the aegis of the Librairie Hachette : every six months, the weekly booklets sold through the network of railway stations, gathered in one volume, which was offered in bookstore. A second series was inaugurated in 1895 under the title