Stories 19
- 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.
City7 min read
- 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
- 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
- USAround the world in eighty daysOct 1872
San Francisco, a political meeting
A day in San Francisco: a good breakfast, a quantity of firearms, and an election in which I took no side and still lost.
City5 min read
- USAround the world in eighty daysOct 1872
New York, forty-five minutes late
The China sailed at nine. We reached the pier at a quarter past eleven. I slept well, all the same.
City3 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
- 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.
Review2 min read