Phileas Fogg

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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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  1. 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.

    Culture & history5 min read
  2. 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.

    Culture & history7 min read