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...
Nellie Bly, a sort of proto-Plympton journalist, convinces her editor to send her around the world in better than 80 days. Not to be outdone, a rival editor sent Elizabeth Bisland on the same journey, in the opposite direction. Eighty Days tells each woman's story as well as her trip around the worl...
This book about a newspaper stunt that captivated America in 1889-1890 excels at giving a sense of people, time, and place, evoking the sights, sounds, technology, and culture of the era in vivid and fascinating detail. When the Suez Canal opened creating a water route from Europe to Asia at about t...
I knew a bit about Nellie Bly and her trip around the world, but nothing at all about Elizabeth Bisland, plus all the books I’d read about Nellie Bly were children’s biographies. So I was very interested in this adult non-fiction account of their race. Goodman weaves together the two stories nicely,...
As any history nerd would tell you, the adage that history is written by the victors is boring. Sometimes, the people who lost or ignored or forgotten by history are just as, or very often, more interesting than the figures we celebrate. Unfortunately, this not the case in this book.There was a Tumb...
In 1889, two young women set out to accomplish an astounding and previously fictional feat – traveling around the world in under eighty days. Both women were reporters, sponsored by their respective news papers to race around the world in opposite directions. This book chronicles their incredible a...
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