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''Around the World in Seventy-Two Days'' is a book by journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochrane, writing under her pseudonym, Nellie Bly. The chronicle details her 72-day trip around the world, which was inspired by the book, ''Around the World in Eighty Days'' by Jules Verne. She carried out the journey for Joseph Pulitzer's tabloid newspaper, the ''New York World''. ==Journey== In 1888, Bly suggested to her editor at the ''New York World'' that she take a trip around the world, attempting to turn the fictional ''Around the World in Eighty Days'' into fact for the first time. A year later, at 9:40 a.m. on November 14, 1889, she boarded the Augusta Victoria, a steamer of the Hamburg America Line,〔Kroeger, Brooke. ''Nellie Bly – Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist''. Times Books Random House, 1994, p. 146〕 and began her 24,899-mile journey. She brought with her the dress she was wearing, a sturdy overcoat, several changes of underwear and a small travel bag carrying her toiletry essentials. She carried most of her money (£200 in English bank notes and gold in total as well as some American currency)〔Kroeger, Brooke. ''Nellie Bly – Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist''. Times Books Random House, 1994, p. 141〕 in a bag tied around her neck.〔Ruddick, Nicholas. "Nellie Bly, Jules Verne, and the World on the Threshold of the American Age." ''Canadian Review of American Studies'', Volume 29, Number 1, 1999, p. 5〕 The New York newspaper ''Cosmopolitan'' sponsored its own reporter, Elizabeth Bisland, to beat the time of both Phileas Fogg and Bly. Bisland would travel the opposite way around the world.〔Barcousky, Len. ("Eyewitness 1890: Pittsburgh welcomes home globe-trotting Nellie Bly" ), ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'', August 23, 2009, accessed January 30, 2011〕〔("Society Topics of the Week." ), ''The New York Times'', November 24, 1889, accessed January 30, 2011〕 To sustain interest in the story, the ''World'' organized a “Nellie Bly Guessing Match” in which readers were asked to estimate Bly’s arrival time to the second, with the Grand Prize consisting at first of a free trip to Europe and, later on, spending money for the trip.〔〔Kroeger, Brooke. ''Nellie Bly – Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist''. Times Books Random House, 1994, p. 150〕 On her travels around the world, Bly went through England, France (where she met Jules Verne in Amiens), Brindisi, the Suez Canal, Colombo (Ceylon), the Straits Settlements of Penang and Singapore, Hong Kong, and Japan. The development of efficient submarine cable networks and the electric telegraph allowed Bly to send short progress reports,〔Ruddick, Nicholas. “Nellie Bly, Jules Verne, and the World on the Threshold of the American Age.” ''Canadian Review of American Studies'', Volume 29, Number 1, 1999, p. 8〕 though longer dispatches had to travel by regular post and were thus often delayed by several weeks.〔 Bly travelled using steamships and the existing railroad systems,〔Ruddick, Nicholas. “Nellie Bly, Jules Verne, and the World on the Threshold of the American Age.” ''Canadian Review of American Studies'', Volume 29, Number 1, 1999, p. 6〕 which caused occasional setbacks, particularly on the Asian leg of her race.〔Bear, David. “Around the World With Nellie Bly.” ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'', November 26, 2006〕 During these stops, she visited a leper colony in China〔Ruddick, Nicholas. “Nellie Bly, Jules Verne, and the World on the Threshold of the American Age.” ''Canadian Review of American Studies'', Volume 29, Number 1, 1999, p. 7〕〔Kroeger, Brooke. ''Nellie Bly – Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist''. Times Books Random House, 1994, p. 160〕 and she bought a monkey in Singapore.〔〔Kroeger, Brooke. Nellie ''Bly – Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist''. Times Books Random House, 1994, p. 158〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Around the World in Seventy-Two Days」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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