Foster, Allen,

Around the world with Citizen Train : the sensational adventures of the real Phileas Fogg / Allen Foster. - 281 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

Escape from the "City of the Dead" -- Learning the ropes -- A beautiful stranger -- "One of the most promising men in Melbourne" -- Pirates, typhoons and a curious Chinese warlord -- "Wherever I go, money is the ruling power" -- "Citizen train," liberator of Italy -- A railroad fit for a queen -- The king of British tramways -- A yankee patriot in a hostile nation -- "Thank God I am again in a civilized country!" -- "The grandest enterprise under God" -- Blind ambition -- "A man who might have built the pyramids" -- "He came,! he saw! he conquered!" -- "No matter what rubbish he writes, in with every word of it" -- Around the world in eighty days -- Stranger than fiction -- Candidate for president of the U.S.A. -- Candidate for dictator of the U.S.A. -- "The great American crank" -- Outdoing Phileas Fogg -- The last hurrah -- Onward to immortality.

1903582113 9781903582114

2002416709


Train, George Francis, 1829-1904 --Travel.


Adventure and adventurers--United States--Biography
Travelers--United States--Biography
Voyages around the world

G440.T72 / F67 2002

910.41092