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245 10 Around the World in Seventy-Two Days|h[Elektronisk resurs]
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520 Around the World in Seventy-Two Days is a book by
journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochrane, writing under her
pseudonym, Nellie Bly. The chronicle details her 72-day
trip around the world, which was inspired by the book,
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne. She
carried out the journey for the newspaper New York World.
In 1888 Bly suggested to her editor at the New York World
that she take a trip around the world, attempting to turn
the fictional Around the World in Eighty Days into fact
for the first time. A year later, at 9:40 a.m. on November
14, 1889, she boarded the Augusta Victoria, a steamer, and
began her 24,899-mile journey. She took with her the dress
she was wearing, a sturdy overcoat, several changes of
underwear, and a small travel bag carrying her toiletry
essentials. She carried most of her money (£200 in
English bank notes and gold, as well as some American
currency) in a bag tied around her neck. At the same time
The New York newspaper Cosmopolitan sponsored its own
reporter, Elizabeth Bisland, to beat the time of both
Phileas Fogg and Bly. Bisland would travel the opposite
way around the world. During her travels around the world,
Bly went through England, France (where she met Jules
Verne in Amiens), Brindisi, the Suez Canal, Colombo
(Ceylon), the Straits Settlements of Penang and Singapore,
Hong Kong, and Japan. The development of efficient
submarine cable networks and the electric telegraph
allowed Bly to send short progress reports, although
longer dispatches had to travel by regular post and thus
were often delayed by several weeks. Bly travelled using
steamships and the existing railroad systems, which caused
occasional setbacks, particularly on the Asian leg of her
race. During these stops, she visited a leper colony in
China and, in Singapore, she bought a monkey. Just over
seventy-two days after her departure, Bly was back in New
York. She had circumnavigated the globe, traveling alone
for almost the entire journey. Bisland was, at the time,
still crossing the Atlantic, only to arrive in New York
four and a half days later. She also had missed a
connection and had had to board a slow, old ship (the
Bothnia.) Bly's journey was a world record, although it
was bettered a few months later by George Francis Train,
who completed the journey in 67 days. Nellie Bly (1864-
1922) was the pen name of American journalist Elizabeth
Jane Cochrane. She remains notable for two feats: a record
-breaking trip around the world in emulation of Jules
Verne's character Phileas Fogg (Around the World in
Seventy-Two Days, published in 1890), and an exposé in
which she faked insanity to study a mental institution
from within (Ten Days in a Mad-house, 1887). [Elib]
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