Eighty days [Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's history-making race around the world]

Title
: 
Eighty days [Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's history-making race around the world]

Author
: 
Goodman, Matthew.

ISBN
: 
9780385359726

Edition
: 
Unabridged

Publication Information
: 
New York : Random House Audio : Books on Tape, p2013.

Physical Description
: 
15 sound discs (18 hr., 57 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

General Note
: 
Subtitle from container.
 
Compact disc.

Contents
: 
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.

Personal Subject
: 
Bly, Nellie, 1864-1922-Travel.
 
Bisland, Elizabeth, 1861-1929-Travel.

Subject Term
: 
Women journalists -- United States -- Biography.
 
Voyages around the world.

Genre
: 
Audiobooks

Added Author
: 
Mazur, Kathe

Local Subject
: 
Spoken compact disc collection.

Summary
: 
On November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly, a crusading young female reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's World newspaper, left New York City by steamship on a quest to break the record for the fastest trip around the world. Also departing from New York that day, heading in the opposite direction by train, was a young journalist from The Cosmopolitan magazine, Elizabeth Bisland. Each woman was determined to outdo Jules Verne's fictional hero Phileas Fogg and circle the globe in less than 80 days.


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Hardwood Creek Library (Forest Lake)SCD 910.4109252 GOO 15 DISCSAudiobooks Nonfiction
Park Grove Library (Cottage Grove)SCD 910.4109252 GOO 15 DISCSAudiobooks Nonfiction
R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury)SCD 910.4109252 GOO 15 DISCSAudiobooks Nonfiction