Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Ballantine BooksISBN-13:9780345527271ISBN-10:345527275UPC:9780345527271Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:United States, Women, Adventurers & ExplorersBook Topic:19th CenturySize:8.00 x 5.20 x 1.20 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCAEZ6K8K1
Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
NATIONAL BESTSELLER On November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly, the crusading young female reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's World newspaper, 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--and heading in the opposite direction by train--was a young journalist from The Cosmopolitan magazine, Elizabeth Bisland. Each...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Ballantine BooksISBN-13:9780345527271ISBN-10:345527275UPC:9780345527271Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:United States, Women, Adventurers & ExplorersBook Topic:19th CenturySize:8.00 x 5.20 x 1.20 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCAEZ6K8K1
Matthew Goodman is the author of two other nonfiction books, The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York and Jewish Food: The World at Table. The recipient of two MacDowell fellowships and one Yaddo fellowship, he has taught creative writing at numerous universities and workshops. He lives in...
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