When she traveled around the world in just 72 days, beating Jules Verne's fictional escapade, she turned herself into a world celebrity. In this book, the daredevil reporter, Nellie Bly, recounts her real-life voyage where she set the world record for the fastest trip across /5(26). · Nellie Bly arrived in Jersey City at p.m. on Janu, only 72 days, six hours, 11 minutes, and 14 seconds after she had left it. She Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins. After we had been out several days, a young woman came to me with an unsealed cable and asked if I was Nellie Bly. Upon telling her I was, she said that the purser had given the cable to some of the passengers the day before, as he did not know who Nellie Bly was, and after two days traveling among them it reached me.
Publisher's Summary. Around the World in Seventy-Two Days, the book by Nellie Bly, chronicles her sensational day trip around the world for the tabloid newspaper, New York World. On Novem, she boarded the steamer Augusta Victoria on her journey of 23, miles with the goal of finishing in 75 days. Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman (born Elizabeth Jane Cochran; May 5, - Janu), better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was an American journalist, industrialist, inventor, and charity worker who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days, in emulation of Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg, and an exposé in which she worked undercover to. Nellie Bly's Day Trip Around the World. In , French author Jules Verne published Around the World in 80 Days, the fictional account of a man named Phileas Fogg who took advantage of new.
Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman, better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was an American journalist, industrialist, inventor, and charity worker who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days, in emulation of Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg, and an exposé in which she worked undercover to report on a mental institution from within. She was a pioneer in her field and launched a new kind of investigative journalism. At PM on Janu, the train carrying Nellie Bly pulled into the station in Jersey City, New Jersey, marking the end of Nellie Bly’s journey around the world. Completed in 72 days, 6 hours, and 11 minutes, it shattered the previous record for circumnavigation of the globe. Nellie Bly arrived in Jersey City at p.m. on Janu, only 72 days, six hours, 11 minutes, and 14 seconds after she had left it. She beat her own itinerary by three days, and Verne.
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