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Nellie Bly
In November 1889 Nellie Bly, a young reporter for the New York World, set out to beat the record of Jules Verne's fictional Phileas Fogg, travelling alone…
In November 1889 Nellie Bly, a young reporter for the New York World, set out to beat the record of Jules Verne's fictional Phileas Fogg, travelling alone with a single small bag. Her route took her by steamer and train through England and France, where she called on Verne himself at Amiens, through the Suez Canal and Aden to Ceylon, Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan, and back across America, where crowds met her at every station. She was home in seventy-two days.
Bly published her account in 1890, and it reads as fast as she travelled: a record of one woman's nerve in a world that doubted she could do it. Mary Reagan reads it alone, in about six hours.
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