Title: Around the World in 72 Days
Author: Nellie Bly
Year: 1890/2013
Publisher: Heraklion Press
Pages: 213
The original cover, not the Kindle one.
Having read a book about Bly's race around the world (Goodman's Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World), I thought I'd read the account by her. The two together tell a nicely rounded story of her trip, and have inspired me to download Bly's Ten Days in a Mad-House as well.
It's fun for me as a female traveler to learn about Bly's luggage, interactions, and preoccupations, and as a travel blogger to see how she constructs her journalistic narrative and what she chooses to emphasize or include.
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