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A Race Around the World: The True Story of Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland

A Race Around the World: The True Story of Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland

Bye, Alexandra
Rose, Caroline Starr

Hardcover

Series: She Made History

BiographyGeneral Juvenile Nonfiction

Currently unavailable to order

ISBN10: 0807500100
ISBN13: 9780807500101
Publisher: Whitman Albert & Co
Published: Oct 1 2019
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.50 Width: 8.20 Depth: 10.10
Language: English

Best Picture Books of 2019, The Christian Science Monitor
A Mighty Girl's 2019 Books of the Year
Kirkus Reviews' Best Indie Picture Books of 2020

The true story of two women who raced against time--and each other!

In 1889, New York reporter Nellie Bly--inspired by Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days--began a circumnavigation she hoped to complete in less time. Her trip was sponsored by her employer, The World. Just hours after her ship set out across the Atlantic, another New York publication put writer Elizabeth Bisland on a westbound train. Bisland was headed around the world in the opposite direction, thinking she could beat Bly's time. Only one woman could win the race, but both completed their journeys in record time.

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