Around the World in Seventy-Two Days is a book by journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochrane, writing under her pseudonym, Nellie Bly. The chronicle details her record-breaking 72-day trip around the world (1889–90) for Joseph Pulitzer's tabloid newspaper, the New York World that was inspired by the book, Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne.
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“The world is his, who has money to go over it.”
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