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A more pressing mystery is: how did Van Helsing hightail from London to Amsterdam and back every three days by land, when just a little while earlier in the nin
by aasasd 4y ago
A more pressing mystery is: how did Van Helsing hightail from London to Amsterdam and back every three days by land, when just a little while earlier in the nineteenth century literary personas dreaded the prospect of traveling fifteen miles by coach, and arrived all battered and exhausted.
- trgn 4y agoThat's part of the fun of reading the older classics. Some of it is wild. That struck me in Dracula too, how easily people and information traveled. Like their voyage to Transylvania, and how news travelled ahead of them by telegraph.
- AtlasBarfed 4y agoIs 100 miles on horseback on roads in fall that hard? If I told an experienced marathoner to run 20 miles and it was critical, they'd be done in 3-4 hours and shrug it off. If I told a rando from the street to do that, well they'd look at me like I was insane. I would posit a scout/cavalryman with a good horse with route experience could do that. I guess a horse can do a "trot" at 8-12 mph for 20 miles. That's interesting, it's not substantially better than a marathoner, I have read that humans have advantages over other animals in speed over long distances. https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/124606/how-far-can-you-travel-on-horseback-while-pushing-the-horse-to-the-brink https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/124606/how... I guess 40 klicks is the general maximum distance by a horse. That's only 25 miles.