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Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
by Goodman, Matthew
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0345527267
- ISBN 13
- 9780345527264
- Seller
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Toms River, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Ballantine Books, 2013. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Stated First Edition in addition to complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition with tan boards, blue spine cloth, and gold gilt spine lettering. End papers depict a map of the World in 1890 and show Elizabeth Bisland's Westbound Route and Nellie Bly's Eastbound Route. Text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. Dust jacket very good with just a ghost of shelf & edge wear; has been price clipped. * From the book, ""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. 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. Each woman was determined to outdo Jules Verne's fictional hero Phileas Fogg and circle the globe in less than eighty days."" ....and they did.....and this is their story.
Synopsis
Matthew Goodman is the author of two other nonfiction books, The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York and Jewish Food: The World at Table . The recipient of two MacDowell fellowships and one Yaddo fellowship, he has taught creative writing at numerous universities and workshops. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and children.
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- Bookseller
- Elk Creek Heritage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M001176
- Title
- Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
- Author
- Goodman, Matthew
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0345527267
- ISBN 13
- 9780345527264
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2013
- Keywords
- Voyages around the world, Nellie Bly - 1864-1922 - Travel, Elizabeth Bisland - 1861-1929 - Travel, Women journalists - United States - Biography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel; Women & Women's Studies;
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About the Seller
Elk Creek Heritage Books
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Toms River, New Jersey
About Elk Creek Heritage Books
Elk Creek Heritage Books opened for business in 2002 with both online selling and an open shop. We continue now as an online-only bookshop and maintain a growing inventory with new additions regularly uploaded. Our largest subject areas include History, Religion, Biography, and Fiction, however, we also carry books on many other subjects, in addition to our collection of rare and antiquarian books. Our goal is to provide you, our customer, with a completely satisfactory experience.
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