Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
Ebook28 pages14 minutes
Race around the World
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
About this ebook
Offers readers a captivating look into the race between journalists Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland as they compete to be the first person to travel around the globe in less than 80 days. Learn about how these female journalists broke barriers for women in the United States. Additional features include a Fast Facts spread, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, resources for further study, and an index.
Read more from Jeanne Marie Ford
Hurricane Katrina Survival Stories Life with Autism Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsE-Cigarettes: Affecting Lives Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHillary Clinton: Ground-Breaking Politician Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLife with Cerebral Palsy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMovie Technology Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHow Elections Work Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIndian Immigrants: In Their Shoes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDental Hygienists on the Job Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRowan Blanchard: Teen Actress Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLife with Cystic Fibrosis Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEarthquake Survival Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMalaria: How a Parasite Changed History Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEyewitness to the Role of Women in World War I Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAdele: Music Sensation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCatholic Immigrants: In Their Shoes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHow the Government Works Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPrescription Opioids: Affecting Lives Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Race around the World
Related ebooks
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFollowing Nellie Bly: Her Record-Breaking Race Around the World Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNellie Bly's Daring Trip Around the World Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings''Hello Brother'' Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJust So Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Less Than Two Days: A Tale of an American Man and an English Woman Wanting to Love Each Other 1951–1957 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRudy's Rules for Travel: Life Lessons from Around the Globe Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBattle of the Greyhounds: America Part I Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHitching the Highway Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCilin Ii: a Solo Sailing Odyssey: The Closest Point to Heaven Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAttacked Beneath Antarctica: Doc Vandal Adventures, #3 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsShadows on the Sea Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ten Days in a Mad-House: Feigning Insanity in Order to Reveal Asylum Horrors Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStudy Guide to Long Days Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDelphi Collected Works of Otis Adelbert Kline Illustrated Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLight Ahead for the Negro Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLight Ahead for the Negro Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Captain and His Lady Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Patchwork Girl Of Oz Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOut of the Desert: A Story of Palestine, Ploesti and Beyond Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Race Around the World: The True Story of Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Summary of Jayne Zanglein's The Girl Explorers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIn Love With A Stranger: Through Fire And Water To Win Him Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEssential Novelists - Francis Stevens: the woman who invented dark fantasy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAll Things Work Together for Good Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWomen in Journalism - The Best of Nellie Bly Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Jungle Books (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odyssey of a Polish Patriot Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDesert Fire: The Untold Story of the Air Mission That Cut Off Hitler's Oil Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSmoking in Antarctica: Selected Writing Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Children's Historical For You
The Witch of Blackbird Pond: A Newbery Award Winner Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sarah, Plain and Tall: A Newbery Award Winner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fever 1793 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Little House on the Prairie Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Secret Garden: The 100th Anniversary Edition with Tasha Tudor Art and Bonus Materials Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Little House in the Big Woods Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Number the Stars: A Newbery Award Winner Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Night Before Christmas Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Alice In Wonderland: The Original 1865 Unabridged and Complete Edition (Lewis Carroll Classics) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAnne of Green Gables: A Graphic Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Walk Two Moons Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On the Banks of Plum Creek Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Black Elk's Vision: A Lakota Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5One Crazy Summer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Farmer Boy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Forge Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Single Shard: A Newbery Award Winner Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Long Winter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5By the Shores of Silver Lake Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shades of Gray Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Dweller on Two Planets Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Kid's Guide to Native American History: More than 50 Activities Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Bronze Bow: A Newbery Award Winner Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An Elephant in the Garden: Inspired by a True Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lincoln: A Photobiography Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Thunder Rolling in the Mountains Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Call It Courage Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related podcast episodes
Nellie Bly and the Race Around the World - Part 1/3 0% found this document usefulEscape with Lonely Planet founder Tony Wheeler 0% found this document usefulEpisode 43: A Strange Goldfield by Guy Boothby 0% found this document usefulAn Honest Attempt to Understand 0% found this document usefulCycling into Retirement 0% found this document useful218-Lost in the Amazon: In 1769, a Peruvian noblewoman found herself lost and alone in the Amazon rain forest. 0% found this document useful"UNSINKABLE" MOLLY BROWN 0% found this document usefulSightless From Sicily to Southern France with Blind Explorer Christopher Venter 0% found this document usefulOutfitter Trudi Angell Talks About Making The Film La Recua And 40-Years Of Paddling And Saddling In Baja 0% found this document usefulTravels Through Countries that Don't Exist with Eric Czuleger 0% found this document usefulEpisode 49 They by Rudyard Kipling 0% found this document usefulRepurpose the Proven 0% found this document usefulVisuospatial Sketchpad 0% found this document useful
Related articles
Nellie Bly Successfully Completes Her Round-the-world Race In 72 Days History RevealedArticle
Nellie Bly Successfully Completes Her Round-the-world Race In 72 Days
Dec 29, 2020
When investigative journalist Nellie Bly arrived in New Jersey on 25 January 1890, a scene of celebration greeted her. Jersey City station was “packed with thousands of people” who had all gathered together to witness history. As she leapt down from
8 min readThe Wyoming Woman Homesteader Wild WestArticle
The Wyoming Woman Homesteader
Mar 1, 2022
4 min readThe Old Un’s Notes The OldieArticle
The Old Un’s Notes
Jun 30, 2021
* Have Oldie-readers who wear glasses ever thought where specs come from? The answer lies in a new book, Through the Looking Glasses: The Spectacular Life of Spectacles, by Travis Elborough. Elborough, himself bespectacled, traces the history of spec
6 min readJEAN BATTEN Our Queen Of The Skies New Zealand Woman’s WeeklyArticle
JEAN BATTEN Our Queen Of The Skies
Oct 11, 2020
3 min readPreviews NEXTArticle
Previews
Nov 10, 2019
3 min readStreets Ahead Sailing TodayArticle
Streets Ahead
May 31, 2019
4 min readTim The Yowie Man the Tale Of The Nullarbor Nymph Australian GeographicArticle
Tim The Yowie Man the Tale Of The Nullarbor Nymph
Jan 4, 2021
THESE DAYS, if a grainy photo of a half-naked woman living with kangaroos on the Nullarbor was circulated it would probably get a run on a fake news website before disappearing into obscurity. Savvy readers would realise it was a prank. But back in l
2 min readBooks The Big IssueArticle
Books
Aug 15, 2022
6 min readThe Best Books For Summer 2018, Wherever And However You're Holidaying Post MagazineArticle
The Best Books For Summer 2018, Wherever And However You're Holidaying
Jul 12, 2018
10 min readA Fool on Wheels Land Rover MonthlyArticle
A Fool on Wheels
Apr 1, 2020
14 min readThe Born Free legacy Land Rover MonthlyArticle
The Born Free legacy
Jun 24, 2020
A rare, almost saintly man.” This was how the renowned ITN foreign correspondent and author, Sandy Gall, described George Adamson in his biography of the man made famous around the world by the 1966 film, Born Free, starring Virginia McKenna and Bill
11 min readSummer Reading The Australian Women's WeeklyArticle
Summer Reading
Dec 29, 2021
Upstanding town councillor and partner in the Wallaby Bay fishing fleet, Eve, 70, never forgets the day 30 years ago her duplicitous husband died. She was about to leave him when the call came that a winch had fallen on top of him. Recuperating from
7 min readThe Way It Was Amateur PhotographerArticle
The Way It Was
Feb 20, 2018
5 min read‘The Story Had Been Stirring In Me For Most Of My Life’: How I Wrote A Booker-shortlisted Novel The GuardianArticle
‘The Story Had Been Stirring In Me For Most Of My Life’: How I Wrote A Booker-shortlisted Novel
Oct 8, 2022
On 14 November 2017, things fell apart for Robert G Mugabe, the long-serving president of Zimbabwe. The strongman, who’d once upon a glorious time gloated “Only God, who appointed me will remove me,” was deposed through a sanitised military coup and
9 min readFootloose 4x4 Magazine AustraliaArticle
Footloose
May 25, 2022
I HAVE been reading a few travel stories of late (as I do) and I suddenly realised they had one thing in common – all these great adventures had been undertaken in Land Rovers. Not the glitzy thing they call a Defender nowadays, but the original Land
3 min readThe Old Un's Notes The OldieArticle
The Old Un's Notes
Sep 20, 2023
✻ Peter Vaughan, best known for starring in the 1970s TV sitcom Porridge, was born 100 years ago this year. His character ‘Grouty’ – the criminal Mr Big in the fictional prison HMP Slade who was menacing in an Ealing comedy sort of way – became one o
4 min readThe Woman Behind The Lens Australian Women’s Weekly NZArticle
The Woman Behind The Lens
Apr 19, 2023
5 min readSaving Graces The OldieArticle
Saving Graces
Mar 9, 2022
Wemmick’s Aged Parent in Dickens’s Great Expectations, beaming by the fire and enjoying his son’s jovial banter despite being stone deaf, remains the template for a contented and cared-for old age. But we read few such scenarios today. We read only o
5 min readCarol Gregson Adirondack LifeArticle
Carol Gregson
Apr 4, 2019
What makes a person an “Adirondacker”? Must one be born within the Blue Line to qualify, or can it be an acquired trait? When I ponder these questions, I find myself thinking of one of my favorite people: Carol Gregson, of Olmstedville. Carol was not
4 min readWild At Heart BBC Countryfile MagazineArticle
Wild At Heart
Jan 12, 2023
5 min readPlaying With The Boys The Classic MotorCycleArticle
Playing With The Boys
Dec 5, 2018
10 min read300,000 Miles 3 Rules 1 Epic Road Trip Rootless LivingArticle
300,000 Miles 3 Rules 1 Epic Road Trip
Mar 1, 2021
6 min readThe Woman Behind The Lens The Australian Women's WeeklyArticle
The Woman Behind The Lens
Apr 19, 2023
5 min readA Life In Stories New Zealand ListenerArticle
A Life In Stories
Aug 6, 2023
4 min readLetters Fortean TimesArticle
Letters
Jan 26, 2023
CONTACT US BY POST: PO BOX 1200, WHITSTABLE CT1 9RH, OR E-MAIL SIEVEKING@FORTEANTIMES.COM PLEASE PROVIDE US WITH YOUR POSTAL ADDRESS “In search of British Bigfeet” [FT425:30-36] mentions the wode-wose (the wild man of the woods). The article says tha
9 min read‘My Great Aunt Died Saving Lives’ Who Do You Think You Are?Article
‘My Great Aunt Died Saving Lives’
Feb 9, 2021
2 min readJenny Agutter: ‘I Was A 16-year-old And I Felt Very Uncomfortable About Being Naked’ The IndependentArticle
Jenny Agutter: ‘I Was A 16-year-old And I Felt Very Uncomfortable About Being Naked’
Jul 13, 2022
6 min readThe Writer’s Journey National Geographic Traveller (UK)Article
The Writer’s Journey
Nov 3, 2022
2 min readPrincess Grace Of Monaco You South AfricaArticle
Princess Grace Of Monaco
Feb 3, 2023
6 min readBooks Of The Month: From Long Island By Colm Tóibín To The Ministry Of Time By Kaliane Bradley The IndependentArticle
Books Of The Month: From Long Island By Colm Tóibín To The Ministry Of Time By Kaliane Bradley
Apr 28, 2024
8 min read
Reviews for Race around the World
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Race around the World - Jeanne Marie Ford
Enjoying the preview?
Page 1 of 1