#Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland&039;s History-Making Race Around the World
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Book Review: Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World by Matthew Goodman
Book Review: Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Race Around the World by Matthew Goodman
Summary: In 1889, the world was obsessed with Jules Verne’s fictional work Around the World in 80 Days. So when Nellie Bly, a human rights crusading female reporter in New York City, suggested taking a shp to Europe in first class then coming back in steerage, she was surprised to get a counter-offer: try to beat the fictional Fogg’s record for traveling around the world. When The Cosmopolitan…
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