I have done so before. Fogg took the train to Brindisi and boarded a steamer across the Mediterranean, which the player cannot exactly reenact, as far a I can tell, because you have to stop in Greece and Asia Minor. The rest can be managed with the same modes of transportation, along the same route as F & Co. did.

I have tried to avoid this route (considering how things went down in the book), but it most certainly is possible.

The most close to the book route is:

London-Paris:1 day,train/Paris-Nice:1 day,train/Nice-Rome:2 days,ferry/Rome-Athens:1 day,airship/Athens-Cairo:1 day,ferry/Cairo-Suez:1 day,car/Suez-Bombay:14 days,steamship/Bombay-Allahabad:3 days,train/Allahabad-Calcutta:3 days,mechanical elephant/Calcutta-Hong Kong:10 days,steamship/Hong Kong-Yokohama:4 days,airship/Yokohama-San Fransisco:steamship,divert to Honolulu(12 days),before reach Honolulu submarine to SF 4 days/SF-New York:6 days,train/New York-London:3 days,airship.Days:66+

Considering Fogg originally fully stayed on the continent before reacing Brindisi and taking a ship to Suez, I tend to minimize the number of ferries I have to take to reach Africa, if I want to reimagine the route of the book.

No ferry goes to Suez directly, so one has to look for routes to Alexandria, or better yet, Cairo. There are two options, the Nefertiti from Antalya, but that's too far to the East and Sophos from Athens. You either need to take an airship (from Rome to Athens) or another ferry (from Venice to Athens) to unlock the latter, so I usually stick to the ferry to keep to the atmosphere of the European part of the novel. (But I do skip the Nice-Rome ferry trip thus decreasing the number of ferry trips by one.)

So that would be London-Paris, Paris-Venice, Venice-Athens, Athens-Cairo. And from then on, it's the same as above.

I didn't think of that.I'll try this in my next journey.Thanks!

Would some seeds be better suited to this than others?

I imagine it would, because the developers deliberately laid out the original route to be right on the 80-day limit. (And set the other journey times accordingly in very rough terms.) So you may get a few seeds which enables you to get it within 78 or 79 days, but it might be actually impossible on others.

As for the actual seeds, I don't have much into, I'm afraid. Trial and error. :)

I ask because indeed it does not seem possible with seed 1. When I get to allahabad, I do not have nearly enough money for the mechanical elephant.

...And then you get stuck there; yeah, I remember one of my very first playthroughs ending right there in that jungle, lol. :P

It's possible with other seeds though, I did it quite a few times afterwards.

You do have to be rather tight though, you can explore to your liking even if you have the next route uncovered, but do take care not to miss tight connections otherwise. (E. g. a 1-hour gap to departure after you explored.)

And manage your inventory actively. (Buy everything, keep the Englishman's Wardrobe and Gentleman Traveller outfits and most of the departure-negotiating sets - Air Traveller, Railway Man, Heavy Storm, maybe Jungle Traveller for this particular journey - sell everything else above $100, conversation items and maps above $10, special items at where they are valuable basically.) That way you can avoid banks, which is useful. Don't worry if some of the sets are incomplete, just try to get them. A partial set can still be key.

Obviously, do complete the adventures - the Mutiny at Sea, Jesse James, the Circus of Yokohama (e. g. you can easily gain a day if you slump into stupor at Hong Kong before the Jade Tiger leaves to Yokohama - on the day you arrived, of course, negotiate, if not - , for example, 'cause that way you can leave in one day; there's practically no extra text by staying a night). Don't take the Sophos adventure though, it's a major distraction.

When not healing Fogg (you often do, remember, you are selling your recuperation sets for money) always use conversation during journeys to discover your next departure. This is particularly useful for the Hong Kong-Yokohama route and everywhere where there is just one batch of unique city text (and the other one is either 'I walked the city to discover possibilities to leave.', the default explore option if you discovered the unique text by taking the night or 'Before settling in for the night I washed our linen/run a few errands, etc.' the default hotel option if you discovered the unique text by exploring.) This helps saving a day where there is no story incentive to stay. Athens is such a city, Cairo as well (don't stop in Alexandria, if prompted), New York another one.

That's it in a nutshell. :P