Elizabeth Bisland | In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World

“Suddenly a great flood of familiarity washes away the memory of strange lands and people I have seen and blots out all sense of time that has elapsed since I last saw all this. I know how everything – the streets, the houses, the passers-by – are looking at this moment. It is as if I had turned away my head for an instant, and now looked back again. My duties, my cares, my interests, which had grown dim and shadowy in these last two months, suddenly take on sharp outlines and become alive and real once more. I feel as if I had but sailed down the bay for an hour, and was now returning.

… The ship slides into dock. I can see the glad faces of my friends upon the pier. My journey is done. I have been around the world in seventy-six days.” Elizabeth Bisland