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Member of the Reform Club. I went round the world in eighty days for a wager. A test profile based on Jules Verne's novel (1872).
LatestAround the world in eighty daysOct 1872Arrested in Liverpool, released, five minutes late to London. Then a proposal, a vicar, and a day I had not known I had.
Around the world in eighty daysOct 1872An unsafe bridge, a vote of the passengers, one sensible suggestion ignored, and a crossing at full speed.
Around the world in eighty daysOct 1872Three hours held up by bison, and an hour in which Passepartout was the whole of a congregation.
Around the world in eighty daysOct 1872Captain Speedy would not go to Liverpool. Then he went, without being consulted. Then I bought his ship and burnt it.
Around the world in eighty daysOct 1872A day in San Francisco: a good breakfast, a quantity of firearms, and an election in which I took no side and still lost.
Around the world in eighty daysOct 1872The China sailed at nine. We reached the pier at a quarter past eleven. I slept well, all the same.
Around the world in eighty daysOct 1872Two hundred miles of frozen prairie, a sail, a west wind and Mr Mudge. The fastest thing I rode in America had no engine.
Around the world in eighty daysOct 1872Yokohama to San Francisco: nineteen days, no incidents, and a complete record of the whist.
Around the world in eighty daysOct 1872A duel interrupted, a train stopped, Passepartout taken. I spent a night and a morning I had not budgeted for.
Around the world in eighty daysOct 1872My servant's own account of how he reached Yokohama without me, without money, and very nearly without a nose.
Around the world in eighty daysOct 1872Eight hundred miles to Shanghai in a twenty-ton pilot boat, through a typhoon, for a hundred pounds a day.
Around the world in eighty daysOct 1872An elephant given away, a magistrate's court, a pair of shoes produced in evidence, and the Rangoon at noon. Expensive, but punctual.
Whist as a travelling companion, and every table I played at on the way round, ranked without fear or favour.
Around the world in eighty daysOct 1872A storm in the China Sea cost the Rangoon a day. The Carnatic did not wait, and my servant went with it.
Around the world in eighty daysOct 1872A procession in the forest, a young woman who had not consented to any of it, and a night spent deciding how to be of use.
Around the world in eighty daysOct 1872Fifty miles of railway that existed only in the newspapers, and what it cost to cross them on an elephant named Kiouni.
Around the world in eighty daysOct 1872Four hours in Bombay: a passport office, an indifferent dinner, and a servant who came back to the station without his shoes.
Eighty-six degrees Fahrenheit. Not eighty-four. A note on why I parted with James Forster, and on how a house should run.
Around the world in eighty daysOct 1872Brindisi to Bombay in a good ship: a visa at Suez, a stranger asking questions, the Red Sea, Aden, whist, and two days in hand.
Around the world in eighty daysOct 1872Three nights, two seas, one mountain tunnel and a gas lamp still burning in Savile Row. The first leg, on the minute.
Around the world in eighty daysOct 1872A newspaper, a rubber of whist and a sentence I need not have said. How twenty thousand pounds came to be riding on eighty days.
