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Around the World in Eighty Days / Race Against Time

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: punctuality, ambition, media influence, travel anxiety, modernity  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-09

Is it uncommon for the best ocean steamers to be two or three days behind time? But a single delay would suffice to fatally break the chain of communi...