Around the World in Eighty Ways

Around the World in Eighty Ways (2024)

Gibbon Moon Books

There are many ways of circling the world. It doesn't matter how many days it takes to return to your starting point. What's more important is the method you choose and the style you adopt. Here are eighty different ways of circumnavigating the globe. They are speculations rather than suggestions, implausible or impossible, often lethal but gleeful.

"It's a crime that Rhys Hughes is not as widely known as Italo Calvino and other writers of that stature. Brilliantly written and conceived, Hughes’ fiction has few parallels anywhere in the world. In some alternate universe with a better sense of justice, his work triumphantly parades across all bestseller lists.” — JEFF VANDERMEER