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Following Nellie Bly: Her Record-Breaking Race Around the World

Signed by the authorIntrepid journalist Nellie Bly raced through a `man`s world` – alone and literally with just the clothes on her back – to beat the fictional record set by Jules Verne`s Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days. She won the race on 25 January 1890, covering 21,740 miles by ocean liner and train in 72 days, and became a global celebrity. Although best known for her record-breaking journey, even more importantly Nellie Bly pioneered investigative journalism and paved the way for women in the newsroom. Her undercover reporting, advocacy for women`s rights, crusades for vulnerable children, campaigns against oppression and steadfast conviction that `nothing is impossible` makes the world that she circled a better place.Adventurer, journalist and author, Rosemary J Brown, set off 125 years later to retrace Nellie Bly`s footsteps in an expedition registered with the Royal Geographical Society. Through her recreation of that epic global journey, she brings to life Nellie Bly`s remarkable achievements and shines a light on one of the world`s greatest female adventurers and a forgotten heroine of history.

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