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TITLE DEED HOW DID CELEBRATED BOOKS GET THEIR NAMES? Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days

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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20051030
Author:GARY DEXTER

THE REAL Phileas Fogg was an eccentric American railroad magnate called George Francis Train. In 1870, in a publicity stunt to boost his campaign for the presidency, "Citizen Train'' made a trip around the world starting in New York, travelling west on the Union Pacific railroad (which he had financed and built) to San Francisco, then to Yokohama, Hong Kong, Singapore, the Suez Canal, Marseilles and Liverpool, where he boarded a steam packet for New York, arriving, by his own reckoning, 80 days after his departure. (In fact, he had been thrown in jail in Lyons for two weeks as a supporter of ...

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