Stories 5
- US
Around the world in eighty daysOct 1872The bridge at Medicine Bow
An unsafe bridge, a vote of the passengers, one sensible suggestion ignored, and a crossing at full speed.
Nature5 min read
- USAround the world in eighty daysOct 1872
A sermon in the sleeping car
Three hours held up by bison, and an hour in which Passepartout was the whole of a congregation.
Nature4 min read
- USAround the world in eighty daysOct 1872
A sledge with a sail
Two hundred miles of frozen prairie, a sail, a west wind and Mr Mudge. The fastest thing I rode in America had no engine.
Nature4 min read
- GB
Around the world in eighty daysOct 1872Four days on a pilot boat
Eight hundred miles to Shanghai in a twenty-ton pilot boat, through a typhoon, for a hundred pounds a day.
Nature6 min read
- IN
Around the world in eighty daysOct 1872The railway that wasn't finished
Fifty miles of railway that existed only in the newspapers, and what it cost to cross them on an elephant named Kiouni.
Nature7 min read