5th May 2017

Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World - Matthew Goodman

Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything.

 

Nellie Bly

 

Pioneering journalist Nellie Bly (born May 5, 1864) was famous for stunts like getting herself admitted into an asylum to report on its abysmal conditions and traveling around the world in less than 80 days. She was also the first female war correspondent from America during World War I.