Phileas Fogg

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).

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GBAround the world in eighty daysOct 1872
Nineteen days of whist
Yokohama to San Francisco: nineteen days, no incidents, and a complete record of the whist.
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GBAround the world in eighty daysOct 1872
Four 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.
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Post14 Feb 1873
Whist, reviewed
Whist as a travelling companion, and every table I played at on the way round, ranked without fear or favour.
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