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| Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World by Matthew Goodman, pub. February 2013, 480 pg. |
Rating: 4/5 stars
Do you like action? Is international travel one of your favorite topics? Are you a big fan of history, journalism or women’s rights?
If you answered yes to any of those questions, then Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Race Around the World by Matthew Goodman is definitely a book you should check out.
In a time where it was uncommon enough for women to leave the house without a chaperone, Bly and Bisland both traveled the entire distance around the globe alone, Bly was traveling as a newspaper reporter for the “New York World,” and Bisland was traveling on behalf of “Cosmopolitan” magazine, a completely different publication from how we know it today, competing to see who would make it back to New York first.This book is a masterpiece of nonfiction, detailing the race between Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland, two of America’s first famous female journalists, to see who could travel all the way around the world first.
I don’t often read nonfiction books, as I’m a much bigger fan of novels, but I really loved this book.
