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.
Tips & practical7 min read
- 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.
Tips & practical7 min read
- HK
Around the world in eighty daysOct 1872Hong Kong, one steamer short
A storm in the China Sea cost the Rangoon a day. The Carnatic did not wait, and my servant went with it.
Tips & practical4 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.
Tips & practical7 min read
- GBAround the world in eighty daysOct 1872
Eleven days on the Mongolia
Brindisi to Bombay in a good ship: a visa at Suez, a stranger asking questions, the Red Sea, Aden, whist, and two days in hand.
Tips & practical5 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.
Tips & practical3 min read
- GBAround the world in eighty daysOct 1872
The wager
A newspaper, a rubber of whist and a sentence I need not have said. How twenty thousand pounds came to be riding on eighty days.
Tips & practical7 min read