London, United KingdomStories 6
- 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.
Road trip5 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.
Road trip4 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.
Road trip4 min read
- 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.
Road trip7 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.
Road trip7 min read
- FR
Around the world in eighty daysOct 1872Charing Cross to Brindisi, by the timetable
Three nights, two seas, one mountain tunnel and a gas lamp still burning in Savile Row. The first leg, on the minute.
Road trip3 min read