Travel for its own sake seems to have fascinated Verne. In Keraban the Inflexible (1883), the Turkish hero is so angry at having to pay a fee to cross the Bosporus that instead he circles the Black Sea just to avoid the toll. Rail travel is the topic of Claudius Bombarnac (1894); Bombarnac is a journalist riding the newly opened Trans-Siberian Railroad. Even a.....
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