Around the World in Seventy-Two Days

Around the World in Seventy-Two Days

by Nellie Bly
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 06/08/2017

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This is a true account by American woman journalist who, in 1889, set out to see whether she could beat the fictional journey in Jules Verne’s 1873 novel, Around the World in Eighty Days. Wearing one dress and carrying one handbag, Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman (pen name "Nellie Bly"), reported her travels back to avid readers in America.

ISBN:
1230001788617
1230001788617
Category:
Dictionaries of biography (Who's Who)
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
06-08-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cp
Nellie Bly

Born Elizabeth Jane Cochran, Nellie Bly (1864–1922) reported on inequalities women faced in the workplace and in the legal system, and she served as a foreign correspondent in Mexico.

Two years after her undercover work at Blackwell's Island Asylum, Bly circled the globe to test the feasibility of Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days - and beat the fictional record by eight days. This new edition of her groundbreaking reports from the asylum features 17 period illustrations from the original publication.

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