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Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
By Goodman, Matthew
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Reviewed on June 15, 2013 | Audio
Goodman (The Sun and the Moon) combines thorough research with the ability to tell a riveting story in this account of an episode that gripped America in 1889. Two very different newspaper women—Nellie Bly, bold and impatient from small-town Pennsylvania, and Elizabeth Bisland, a more introspective, genteel Southerner—raced each other around the world. The women traveled in opposite directions by train, ferry, and steamshi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
