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A Race Around the World Trailer: Based on the True Adventures of Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland
FromA Race Around the World: Based on the True Adventures of Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland
A Race Around the World Trailer: Based on the True Adventures of Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland
FromA Race Around the World: Based on the True Adventures of Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland
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Length:
3 minutes
Released:
Sep 4, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
On November 14th, 1889, two female writers entered a race to go around the world in under 80 days. Nellie Bly went east, and Elizabeth Bisland headed west. This eleven part series will unpack their whirlwind adventure and what it was like to circumnavigate the globe alone as a woman at a time where women had no rights. Storyteller and travel writer Adrien Behn brings Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bislands’ experiences, emotions, and adventures to life in this serialized podcast. A Race Around the World brings the incredible accomplishments of these two bold solo female travelers to life, going through every country and feeling they face while braving the world on their own, in under 80 days.
Released:
Sep 4, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (18)
Episode Two: One Woman Goes East, the Other Goes West: Nellie Bly isn’t the only woman to leave New York on November 14th to race around the world. On the same day, the editor of the Cosmopolitan magazine, John Brisben Walker, recognized the potential for a sensational story. He dispatched ( aka bribed,... by A Race Around the World: Based on the True Adventures of Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland