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Around The World in 72 Days - Nellie Bly

From: Wieslaw Szydlowski <Wieslaw.Szydlowski~at~lansa.com.au>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:14:03 +1100
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Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
by Nellie Bly

Hi,

LIBRIVOX.ORG recently added to their audio resorces book by Nellie Bly -
Around The World in &2 days

Very Interesting


Regards from rainy Sydney

Wiesiek


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.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly


 Around the world
 
Nellie Bly in her traveling clothes, 1890In 1888, it was suggested that the
New York World should send a reporter on a trip around the world, mimicking
Jules Verne's book Around the World in Eighty Days. It was decided that
Nellie Bly should be that reporter, and on November 14, 1889 she left New
York on her 24,899-mile journey.

"Seventy-two days, six hours, eleven minutes and fourteen seconds after her
Hoboken departure" (January 25, 1890) Nellie arrived in New York. At the
time this was a world record for circling the earth, though it was bested a
few months later by George Francis Train, who completed the journey in 67
days.

On her travels around the world, she visited not only England, Japan, China,
Hong Kong, and others but also the home of Jules Verne, Brindisi, Colombo,
and San Francisco. She was also the first woman to travel around the world
unaccompanied at all times by a man, and became a role model for women
everywhere.
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