{"id":19704,"date":"2013-05-01T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=19499"},"modified":"2013-05-14T16:24:20","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T21:24:20","slug":"eighty-days-nellie-bly-and-elizabeth-brislands-history-making-race-around-the-world-by-matthew-goodman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/eighty-days-nellie-bly-and-elizabeth-brislands-history-making-race-around-the-world-by-matthew-goodman\/","title":{"rendered":"Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Brisland’s History-Making Race Around the World by Matthew Goodman"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"eighty<\/a>On November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly, the crusading young female reporter for Joseph Pulitzer\u2019s\u00a0World<\/i>\u00a0newspaper, left New York City by steamship on a quest to break the record for the fastest trip around the world. Also departing from New York that day\u2014and heading in the opposite direction by train\u2014was a young journalist from\u00a0The Cosmopolitan<\/i>\u00a0magazine, Elizabeth Bisland. Each woman was determined to outdo Jules Verne\u2019s fictional hero Phileas Fogg and circle the globe in less than eighty days. The dramatic race that ensued would span twenty-eight thousand miles, captivate the nation, and change both competitors\u2019 lives forever.<\/p>\n

The two women were a study in contrasts. Nellie Bly was a scrappy, hard-driving, ambitious reporter from Pennsylvania coal country who sought out the most sensational news stories, often going undercover to expose social injustice. Genteel and elegant, Elizabeth Bisland had been born into an aristocratic Southern family, preferred novels and poetry to newspapers, and was widely referred to as the most beautiful woman in metropolitan journalism. Both women, though, were talented writers who had carved out successful careers in the hypercompetitive, male-dominated world of big-city newspapers.\u00a0Eighty Days<\/i>\u00a0brings these trailblazing women to life as they race against time and each other, unaided and alone, ever aware that the slightest delay could mean the difference between victory and defeat.<\/p>\n

A vivid real-life re-creation of the race and its aftermath, from its frenzied start to the nail-biting dash at its finish,\u00a0Eighty Days<\/i><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is history with the heart of a great adventure novel. Here\u2019s the journey that takes us behind the walls of Jules Verne\u2019s Amiens estate, into the back alleys of Hong Kong, onto the grounds of a Ceylon tea plantation, through storm-tossed ocean crossings and mountains blocked by snowdrifts twenty feet deep, and to many more unexpected and exotic locales from London to Yokohama. Along the way, we are treated to fascinating glimpses of everyday life in the late nineteenth century\u2014an era of unprecedented technological advances, newly remade in the image of the steamship, the railroad, and the telegraph. For Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland\u2014two women ahead of their time in every sense of the word\u2014were not only racing around the world. They were also racing through the very heart of the Victorian age. (description from publisher)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly, the crusading young female reporter for Joseph Pulitzer\u2019s\u00a0World\u00a0newspaper, left New York City by steamship on a quest to break the record for the fastest trip around the world. Also departing from New York that day\u2014and heading in the opposite direction by train\u2014was a young[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[475,122,1300],"class_list":["post-19704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-adventure","tag-travel","tag-womens-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-57O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19704"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19794,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19704\/revisions\/19794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}