Not as romantic as Nellie Bly going around the world in 72 days (1890). Using trains, steamship and the telegraph she wrote about the voyage for her newspaper.

Not as romantic as Nellie Bly going around the world in 72 days (1890). Using trains, steamship and the telegraph she wrote about the voyage for her newspaper. Meeting up in France with Jules Verne. Taking an express train from California back to New York to beat out a competitor, doing the same trip, but travelling in the other direction, and for a rival newspaper. (http://www.digital.library.upenn.edu/women/bly/world/world.html http://www.digital.library.upenn.edu/women/bly/world/world.h...)