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Person1864 – 1922
Nellie Bly
American journalist famed for her undercover exposé of an insane asylum, who travelled alone around the world in 72 days in 1889–90
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The American journalist Nellie Bly, out to beat the fictional Fogg, travelled alone eastward around the world and returned in 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes — the fastest circuit yet.
People who appear alongside
Jules Verne1828 – 1905French novelist whose adventure stories such as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas and Around the World in Eighty Days made him a father of science fiction
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- Around the World in Eighty Days1869 – 1890
When the Suez Canal and the transcontinental railroad made it possible to circle the globe in months — Phileas Fogg’s eighty days in Jules Verne’s novel, and the reporter Nellie Bly who took up the challenge and went round in seventy-two