Stories 8
- US
Around the world in eighty daysOct 1872A sermon in the sleeping car
Three hours held up by bison, and an hour in which Passepartout was the whole of a congregation.
Culture & history4 min read
- USAround the world in eighty daysOct 1872
San Francisco, a political meeting
A day in San Francisco: a good breakfast, a quantity of firearms, and an election in which I took no side and still lost.
Culture & history5 min read
- JP
Around the world in eighty daysOct 1872Passepartout's account: the Long Noses
My servant's own account of how he reached Yokohama without me, without money, and very nearly without a nose.
Culture & history7 min read
- IN
Around the world in eighty daysOct 1872Two thousand pounds in Calcutta
An elephant given away, a magistrate's court, a pair of shoes produced in evidence, and the Rangoon at noon. Expensive, but punctual.
Culture & history5 min read
- INAround the world in eighty daysOct 1872
The pagoda at Pillaji
A 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.
Culture & history7 min read
- INAround the world in eighty daysOct 1872
Bombay, and Passepartout's shoes
Four hours in Bombay: a passport office, an indifferent dinner, and a servant who came back to the station without his shoes.
Culture & history3 min read
- GB
Around the world in eighty daysOct 1872Eleven days on the Mongolia
Brindisi to Bombay in a good ship: a visa at Suez, a stranger asking questions, the Red Sea, Aden, whist, and two days in hand.
Culture & history5 min read
- GBAround the world in eighty daysOct 1872
The wager
A newspaper, a rubber of whist and a sentence I need not have said. How twenty thousand pounds came to be riding on eighty days.
Culture & history7 min read