' In July 1936 Greene, always restless, suggested he and Waugh should imitate Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days and “do a race around the world”. Waugh refined the plan by adding: “I think that it should be a race not in time but economy. Each to start with no luggage and a limited sum — say £100 — and the one who arrives with the most cash in hand to get a prize.”