NATIONAL BESTSELLER On November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly, the crusading young female reporter for Joseph Pulitzer\'s World newspaper, left New York City by steamship on a quest to break the record for the fastest trip Around the world.
Each woman was determined to outdo Jules Verne\'s fictional hero Phileas Fogg and ci.
Also departing from New York that day--and heading in the opposite direction by train--was a young journalist from The Cosmopolitan magazine, Elizabeth Bisland.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER On November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly, the crusading young female reporter for Joseph Pulitzer\'s World newspaper, left New York City by steamship on a quest to break the record for the fastest trip Around the world