Around the World in Eighty Days / Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours by Jules Verne. First Published 1873 (illustration from 1892 edition by Leon Benett). Captio reads: 'The Tankadere was tossed about like a feather. ' Chapter XXI ; In whichIn which the master of the Tankadere runs great risk of losing a reward of two hundred pounds'. JV French novelist 8 February 1828-24 March 1905. (Phileas Fogg of London and his French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager set by his friends at the Reform Club). Artist Léon Benett 1839-1917
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