Stories 5
- 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
- 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