VERNE, Jules; TOWLE, George M. (trans.)
The most celebrated of all Verne's works, later published as "Around the World in Eighty Days." Also the book that provoked an interest in world circumference records for the next 100 years. The best- known attempt on the record was that of Nellie Bly who completed the trip in just over 72 days in 1889-90, finding time to drop in on Verne at home in Amiens along the way. The translator, George M. Towle, was a US consul at Nantes, France just after the American Civil War. Short bio of Verne by Adrien Marx. Myers 54. Taves & Michaluk V011.
