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Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
By Goodman, Matthew
- ISBN
- 9780345527264 9780345527288
- Publisher
- Ballantine
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Reviewed on January 1, 2013 | Social Sciences
In November 1889, two young women reporters, Nelly Bly and Elizabeth Bisland, one backed by a newspaper and the other by a monthly periodical, set off on a race to see who could make it first around the world. No one had actually beaten the fictional 80 days set by Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne's 1873 novel. Bly went east, Bisland west. Bly won, though there were allegations of fraud. (I...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
