Introduces the life of Nellie Bly who, as a "stunt reporter" for the New York World newspaper in the late 1800s, championed women's rights and traveled around the world faster than anyone ever had.
In 1888, a young, female reporter for New York World newspaper sets out to travel around the world in fewer than eighty days, while a Cosmopolitan magazine reporter tries to beat her to the goal.
Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's history-making race around the world
Goodman, Matthew
2013
Recounts the race between newspaper reporters Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland, to travel around the world in eighty days or less on their own in 1889.
Victorian Age detective, reporter, and feminist Nellie Bly accepts Jules Verne's challenge to beat his record of traveling around the world in eighty days, but must call her investigative skills into play when murder seems to plague her journey.