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Eighty days : Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's history-making race around the world
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- ISBN: 0345527283 (ebook)
- ISBN: 9780345527288 (ebook)
- ISBN: 0345527267 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780345527264 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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xxiii, 449 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
print - Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, c2013.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Subject: | Voyages around the world Women journalists United States Biography Bisland, Elizabeth 1861-1929 Travel Bly, Nellie 1864-1922 Travel |
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Eighty Days : Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
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Eighty Days : Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Prologue | p. xiii | |
| Chapter 1 | A Free American Girl | p. 3 |
| Chapter 2 | The Newspaper Gods of Gotham | p. 17 |
| Chapter 3 | The Secret Cupboard | p. 40 |
| Chapter 4 | "How Quick Can a Woman Go Around the World?" | p. 57 |
| Chapter 5 | "I Think Can Beat Phileas Fogg's Record" | p. 69 |
| Chapter 6 | Living by Railroad Time | p. 92 |
| Chapter 7 | A Map of the World | p. 116 |
| Chapter 8 | "Et Ego in Arcadia" | p. 139 |
| Chapter 9 | Baksheesh | p. 161 |
| Chapter 10 | An English Market Town in China | p. 184 |
| Chapter 11 | "The Guessing Match Has Begun in Beautiful Earnest" | p. 197 |
| Chapter 12 | The Other Woman Is Going to Win | p. 215 |
| Chapter 13 | The Temple of the Dead | p. 235 |
| Chapter 14 | The Mysterious Travel Agent | p. 255 |
| Chapter 15 | The Special Train | p. 282 |
| Chapter 16 | "From Jersey to Jersey Is Around the World" | p. 307 |
| Chapter 17 | Father Time Outdone | p. 324 |
| Epilogue | p. 355 | |
| Acknowledgments | p. 377 | |
| Notes | p. 381 | |
| Selected bibliography | p. 415 | |
| Illustration credits | p. 425 | |
| Index | p. 427 |
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