# Round the world in any number of days Author: Baring, Maurice, 1874-1945; B. T. B. (Basil Temple Blackwood), 1870-1917 [Illustrator]; Enright, Walter J. (Walter Joseph), 1879-1969 [Illustrator]; Lynch, Vincent, 1862-1935 [Illustrator] Genre: Category: Travel Writing Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76744 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Round+the+world+in+any+number+of+days+Baring&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary I believe there is a school of people who say the world is flat. I asked H. G. Wells (who ought to know) whether the world was flat: He said he thought it improbable (mark the scepticism of H. G. Wells!), but he said the proofs generally given of the world’s roundness were bosh. The dogmas of science go round and round, from reaction to progress, and from progress to reaction, like the dogmas of medicine. One has only to remain very conservative to find one’s self a revolutionary. “But,” some one may say, “whether the world is round and you are going round it, or whether it is flat and you are going across (or along?) it, that is no reason for describing your voyage--nowadays a hackneyed... ## Chapters - [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/round-the-world-in-any-number-of-days-76744/chapters/5/index.md) - [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/round-the-world-in-any-number-of-days-76744/chapters/3/index.md) - [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/round-the-world-in-any-number-of-days-76744/chapters/4/index.md) - [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/round-the-world-in-any-number-of-days-76744/chapters/2/index.md) - [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/round-the-world-in-any-number-of-days-76744/chapters/6/index.md) - [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/round-the-world-in-any-number-of-days-76744/chapters/7/index.md) - [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/round-the-world-in-any-number-of-days-76744/chapters/1/index.md) - [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/round-the-world-in-any-number-of-days-76744/chapters/8/index.md)