Around The World In Seventy-Two Days

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