Around the World in Seventy-Two Days

By Bly, Nellie

Book Id: WPLBN0002951955
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File Size: 175.53 MB
Reproduction Date: 2007

Title:	Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
Author:	Bly, Nellie
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Non-fiction, Biography
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Around the World in Seventy-Two Days; by Nellie Bly
Historic Publication Date:	1890
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


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Description
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)

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Biography