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About The Author

Determined to defy the fictional hero of Jules Verne’s classic Around the World in Eighty Days, a sprightly young American journalist, Nellie Bly, set sail for a trip around the world in 1889, ending it in seventy-two days. This is a lively account of Bly’s adventurous journey. Born as Elizabeth Jane Cochran in Pennsylvania in 1864, Nellie Bly started her career in investigative journalism. In her early days, while reporting for the Pittsburgh Dispatch’s Quiet Observer, she wrote a series about the poor working girls of Pittsburgh factories, besides taking up cudgels with the state to reform its divorce laws. Later, as a reporter for the New York World, Bly dauntlessly wrote on injustice and corruption.

Shooting into fame following her whirlwind trip around the world, she retreated into a quiet life as the wife of the industrialist Robert Seaman. When she died in 1922, the World paid its tribute to Nellie Bly as “the best reporter in America.”

CONTENTS

A PROPOSAL TO GIRDLE THE EARTH
THE START
SOUTHAMPTON TO JULES VERNE’S
JULES VERNE AT HOME
ON TO BRINDISI
AN AMERICAN HEIRESS
“TWO BEAUTIFUL BLACK EYES”
ADEN TO COLOMBO
DELAYED FIVE DAYS
IN THE PIRATE SEAS
AGAINST THE MONSOON
BRITISH CHINA
CHRISTMAS IN CANTON
THE LAND OF THE MIKADO
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY HOURS IN JAPAN
ACROSS THE PACIFIC
ACROSS THE CONTINENT
THE RECORD