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The race around the world

Title
The race around the world / by Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland ; edited by Matthew Goodman.
Author
Bly, Nellie, 1864-1922
Publication
Chicago : Lakeside Press : R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 2015.

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Additional Authors
  • Bisland, Elizabeth, 1861-1929
  • Goodman, Matthew
  • Bisland, Elizabeth, 1861-1929.
Description
lii, 346, [2] pages : illustrations (some color), color map, portraits; 18 cm.
Summary
The book consists of excerpts from Nellie Bly's Around the world in seventy-two days and Elizabeth Bisland's In seven stages: a flying trip around the world. The publisher "abridged and merged their narratives using Bisland's device of 'stages, ' presenting first Bly's and then Bisland's account."
Series Statement
Lakeside classics ; [113]
Uniform Title
Lakeside classics ; 113.
Subject
  • Bly, Nellie, 1864-1922 > Travel
  • Bisland, Elizabeth, 1861-1929 > Travel
  • Bisland, Elizabeth, 1861-1929
  • Bly, Nellie, 1864-1922
  • Voyages around the world
  • Travel
Note
  • Includes index.
Contents
Historical introduction -- Prelude. Bly: The idea ; Bisland: The challenge -- Stage one. Bly: Eastward across the Atlantic ; Bisland: Westward across the Continent -- Stage two. Bly: Through Europe ; Bisland: Westward across the Pacific -- Stage three. Bly: The Middle East ; Bisland: Japan -- Stage four. Bly: Ceylon and Malaya ; Bisland: China -- Stage five. Bly: China ; Bisland: Malaya -- Stage six. Bly: Japan ; Bisland: Ceylon -- Stage seven. Bly: Eastward across the Pacific ; Bisland: Middle East -- The last stage. Bly: Eastward across the Continent ; Bisland: Europe and the Atlantic -- Epilogue.
OCLC
  • ocn932351962
  • 932351962
  • SCSB-1850478
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library