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.
City7 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
Nineteen days of whist
Yokohama to San Francisco: nineteen days, no incidents, and a complete record of the whist.
Review2 min read
- GBAround the world in eighty daysOct 1872
Four 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.
Nature6 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.
Culture & history5 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.
Road trip3 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.
Culture & history7 min read