Stories 7
- GB
Around the world in eighty daysOct 1872Five minutes late
Arrested in Liverpool, released, five minutes late to London. Then a proposal, a vicar, and a day I had not known I had.
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- GBAround the world in eighty daysOct 1872
How to buy a ship and burn it
Captain Speedy would not go to Liverpool. Then he went, without being consulted. Then I bought his ship and burnt it.
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- US
Around the world in eighty daysOct 1872New York, forty-five minutes late
The China sailed at nine. We reached the pier at a quarter past eleven. I slept well, all the same.
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- USAround the world in eighty daysOct 1872
Fort Kearney
A duel interrupted, a train stopped, Passepartout taken. I spent a night and a morning I had not budgeted for.
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- 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.
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- IN
Around the world in eighty daysOct 1872The 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.
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- Post20 Jan 1873
On the temperature of shaving water
Eighty-six degrees Fahrenheit. Not eighty-four. A note on why I parted with James Forster, and on how a house should run.
Everyday life3 min read