Featured on PDR in the essay Elizabeth Bisland’s Race Around the World
Matthew Goodman explores the life and writings of Elizabeth Bisland, an American journalist propelled into the limelight when she set out in 1889 - head-to-head with fellow journalist Nellie Bly - on a journey to beat Phileas Fogg's fictitious 80-day circumnavigation of the globe.
Also appearing in the essay…
A Street Scene in Colombo, Ceylon
Date
ca. 1900
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