Brown Rosemary J Brown

Following Nellie Bly (eBook, ePUB)

Her Record-Breaking Race Around the World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Retrace Nellie Bly's attempt to beat Jules Verne's fictional record in Around the World in 80 Days while pioneering journalism and challenging oppression.

"Reading Rosemary Brown's carefully crafted, charming book, readers can now be armchair companions of two amazing women." -New York Journal of Books

Intrepid 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. Throughout her career, Bly's reportage gave voices to vulnerable people and challenged oppression wherever she found it. Her steadfast conviction that 'nothing is impossible' makes the world 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pen and Sword
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526761415
• Artikelnr.: 62751868

Autorenporträt

Rosemary J Brown is a journalist for newspapers and magazines in the UK, USA and France. An avid traveller, she is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Churchill Fellow. In her quest to put female adventurers 'back on the map' she speaks at the Globetrotters Club, Women of the World festivals and schools, and helped to organise The Heritage of Women in Exploration conference at the Royal Geographical Society.