Around the World in Seventy-Two Days

by Nellie BLY (1864 - 1922)

A Proposal to Girdle the Earth

Around the World in Seventy-Two Days

This is a true account by American woman journalist who, in 1889, set out to see whether she could beat the fictional journey in Jules Verne’s 1873 novel, Around the World in Eighty Days. Wearing one dress and carrying one handbag, Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman (pen name “Nellie Bly”), reported her travels back to avid readers in America. (Summary by Mary Reagan)


Listen next episodes of Around the World in Seventy-Two Days:
Across the Continent , Across the Pacific , Aden to Colombo , Against the Monsoon , An American Heiress , British China , Christmas in Canton , Delayed Five Days , In the Pirate Seas , Jules Verne at Home , On to Brindisi , One Hundred and Twenty Hours in Japan , Southampton to Jules Verne's , The Record , The Start , To the Land of the Mikado , "Two Beautiful Black Eyes"