Eighty days Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's history-making race around the world
Record details
- ISBN: 9780345527288 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0345527283 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
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1 online resource (xxiii, 449 p.) : ill., maps, ports. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, c2013.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-423) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | A free American girl -- The newspaper gods of Gotham -- The secret cupboard -- "How quick can a woman go around the world?" -- "I think I can beat Phileas Fogg's record" -- Living by railroad time -- A map of the world -- "Et ego in Arcadia" -- Baksheesh -- An English market town in China -- "The guessing match has begun in beautiful earnest" -- The other woman is going to win -- The Temple of the Dead -- The mysterious travel agent -- The special train -- "From Jersey to Jersey is around the world" -- Father Time outdone. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Subject: | Bly, Nellie -- 1864-1922 -- Travel Bisland, Elizabeth -- 1861-1929 -- Travel Women journalists -- United States -- Biography Voyages around the world Women 19th Century |
Genre: | Electronic books. |