Around the World in Seventy-Two Days

This is a true account by an American journalist who, in 1889, set out to see whether she could beat the fictional journey in Jules Verne's 1873 novel, Around the World in Eighty Days. Wearing one dress and carrying one handbag, Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman, reported her travels back to avid readers in America, under her pseudonym, Nellie Bly.