Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World by Matthew Goodman

Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World

Matthew Goodman

453 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction biography history travel adventurous informative slow-paced

Description

1889: Two women, successful journalists and writers, set off in a desperate rate in opposite directions, each determined to outdo Jules Verne's fictional hero Phileas Fogg and circle the globe in less than eighty days.On November 14, 1889, Nellie ...

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adventurous 100%
informative 83%
inspiring 58%
hopeful 25%
reflective 16%
challenging 8%
dark 8%
sad 8%

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slow 41%
fast 8%

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