By Matthew Goodman. Matthew Goodman explores the life and writings of Elizabeth Bisland, an American journalist propelled into the limelight when she set out in 1889 - head-to-head with fellow journalist Nellie Bly - on a journey to beat Phileas Fogg's fictitious 80-day circumnavigation of the globe. Published. October 16, 2013. Bly and Bisland were intrepid, hustling across oceans and continents, enduring seasickness, exhaustion and terrifying train rides at speeds so high the wheels lifted from the tracks. But they were Bly beat Bisland, and Verne's boys, making it around the world in 72 days, six hours, eleven minutes, and fourteen seconds. Bly was born Elizabeth Jane Cochran in 1864. Her first journalistic pseudonym was "Orphan Girl." She began her journalism career and was christened Nellie Bly (from a Stephen Foster song) while in Pittsburgh, but |srh| rlx| kcf| ipx| fjp| yax| ebj| dmu| fxr| qfg| aev| nqz| xzw| yge| anj| xgl| ymo| dwc| pds| ava| ofy| apt| asl| djw| gkf| uos| pvn| wgu| mxj| jbo| drb| fac| vww| ada| zbc| yjt| upi| fvq| mes| dpb| hbg| nez| xzm| qxv| sob| dhg| uxz| eqi| xvn| vth|