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Around the world in eighty daysOct 1872Four 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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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).
Around the world in eighty daysOct 1872Eight hundred miles to Shanghai in a twenty-ton pilot boat, through a typhoon, for a hundred pounds a day.