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

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As with most narrative non-fiction, I liked that this book read like an adventure story but with an extra dash of excitement because the events described are real. The author did an admirable job taking advantage of this, spicing up the narrative with seamlessly integrated pictures and quotes. Th...

from Dorritt

I love books about American history, women, and exploration, so this should have been right up my alley. To some extent, the books delivers what it promises. I now know all about the circumstances that led up to Nellie Bly's legendary quest to break the record Jules Verne established in "80 Days ...

from bezoar44

In 1889, it was possible to circle the Earth by steamship and rail, and therefore faster than ever before - but aviation was still decades away, so global travel still required months. This history recounts a three-way 1889 around-the-world race: muckraking journalist Nellie Bly attempting to bea...

from dizzyweasel

Eighty Days, the story of two female reporters' race around the world, is an entertaining read - though nonfiction, Goodman writes his narrative like a novel, and the two reporters are developed as characters in this exciting travelogue. In a time where women could only eat alone at the counter a...

from jcbrunner

Jules Verne read about the ease of modern steam ship travel that took the strain out of world travel and ran on schedule. "Around the World in Eighty Days" is a great adventure story but even in its day was already history, as anybody rich could simply book a steamer trip from Italy to Ceylon and...