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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.
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London, United Kingdomphileasfogg.wroteabout.comWriting since 1873
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).
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.