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This book was a delightful journey around the world with the lovely Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland. It was the first book in a very long time that retained its five-star rating almost from the very beginning. While it does have some flaws, I adored the storytelling style and history that was cover...
Nelly Bly was, by 1889, already rather famous in New York as not only a muckraking investigative journalist, an unusual enough occupation for a woman of her day, but a very good one. In particular she was well known for spending 10 days undercover as a patient in a womens mental asylum, and exposing...
Eighty Days is an engrossing tale of two women’s journey in an attempt to beat the fictional journey of Jules Verne’s Phileas Fogg. The two women are Nellie Bly, a reporter for the now defunct New York World newspaper, and Elizabeth Bisland, a columnist for The Cosmopolitan magazine; yes the same o...
A sad fact of life, is that we get books about the =great things that were done. For the most part these people if unlucky get to keep living after that shining moment. And that the sad part of our tale. First off this is a non fiction book that read faster and more lively then many contemporary n...
As a woman who has done a lot of solo traveling I have always admired Nellie Bly as a pioneer of female world travel. Ever since I first did a book report about her in the third grade I have been interested in her, and I was eager to read this book about her race around the world, especially when I...
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