Jul 19, 2013
Eighty Days is about two young women who went around the world in 1889 in opposite directions. Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland both traveled alone and were trying to bet the fictional hero Phileas Fogg from the Jules Vernes book “Around the World in eighty days”, and make it in less than 80 days. Men had done it before but for a woman to travel alone was unheard of at the time. Nellie Bly wanted to write about her travels and only took one handbag, while Elizabeth Bisland was paid to travel around the world going the opposite direction.
Who won the race? Read the book and find out! You might just learn a few things about history too!