Around the World with Nellie Bly
Young women encircle the globe these days in jet planes, often without a traveling companion. But when daring Nellie Bly set forth on November 14,...
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Young women encircle the globe these days in jet planes, often without a traveling companion. But when daring Nellie Bly set forth on November 14, 1889, to better if she could the record of Phileas Fogg, she immediately became a national sensation.
Could this fearless girl reporter go around the world in less than eighty days? What would she wear? What would she carry in the way of luggage? What route would she take? How could she manage to make herself understood in "heathen" countries that spoke no English? And what was her mother thinking of to let her go?
Emily Hahn recaptures the humor and excitement of Nellie's journey, which in its day was quite as thrilling to the public as any launching of a moon rocket or intercontinental missile might be today. Here is a period story which is quaintly romantic, wryly amusing, and very readable.
—Sterling North, 1959
- Format:Hardcover
- Pages:181 pages
- Publication:1959
- Publisher:Houghton Mifflin
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- Language:eng
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