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Around the World in Seventy-Two Days is an 1890 book by journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochrane, writing under her pseudonym, Nellie Bly. The chronicle details her 72-day trip around the world, which was inspired by the 18...
But in 1889, another one of her projects attracted even more attention: a trip around the world by train, steamship, rickshaw, horse and donkey, all accomplished in 72 days.
On January 25, 1890, the world waited for a young reporter named Nellie Bly to arrive back home. For 72 days, as she jumped cargo ships, trains, tugboats, and rickshaws, newspaper readers had...
Nor was my health good when I was told to go around the world in the shortest time possible at that season of the year. For almost a year I had been a daily sufferer from headache, and only the week previous I had con...
Nellie Bly arrived in Jersey City at 3:51 p.m. on January 25, 1890, only 72 days, six hours, 11 minutes, and 14 seconds after she had left it. She beat her own itinerary by three days, and...
On the 14 November 1889, American journalist Nellie Bly began a record-breaking trip around the globe. Inspired by Jules Verne’s Phileas Fogg, she set off from Jersey City determined to prove that crossing the world i...
Nellie Bly’s trip around the world in 72 days remains a legendary achievement in the annals of travel and journalism. Her daring adventure and groundbreaking reporting continue to inspire people to this day.
In Jules Verne’s 1873 novel Around the World in Eighty Days, the hero of the book, Phineas T. Fogg, travels around the globe in precisely 80 days. Investigative journalist Nellie Bly decided she could do it even faste...
Originally published in 1890 in book form, the text was based on Nellie Bly's newspaper articles for the New York World. In 1889, Bly went around the world as a journalism "stunt" to beat the fictional record of Jules...
On Nov. 14, 1889, New York World reporter and Western Pa. native Nellie Bly started a 25,000-mile journey around the world, inspired by the popular Jules Verne book “Around the World in Eighty Days.”
