The Bly-Verne connection took Nellie Bly off her precise itinerary. Her decision to meet Jules Verne in person at his home in Amiens, France threatened to derail her highly publicized race to beat Verne’s fictional record around the world in eighty days. Accounts regarding the race vary in
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Rival journalists Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland raced around the world in 1889. Facing treacherous…
