Nellie Bly and the Race Around the World - Part 3

The Explorers Podcast

Matt Breen

Education, History, Society & Culture

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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In January of 1890, Nellie Bly sailed from Japan in her race around the world. And while the ocean voyage would present its own challenges, a massive snowstorm in the American west would threaten Bly's attempt to defeat Phileas Fogg - as well as her rival - Elizabeth Bisland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:29.6	Hello!
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1:31.6	Hello and welcome to the Explorers podcast. Today's episode is the final chapter in the race around the world
1:35.4	by journalist Nellie Bly. Last time we left our hero, 25-year-old Nellie Bly,
1:41.1	on a steamship bound for San Francisco.
1:43.2	Bly had boarded the ship in Japan.
1:45.9	She was racing to America where she would then take a train to New York and in doing so
1:50.3	beat Phileas Fogg from the novel around the world in 80 days.
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