Timeline
Lifetime:
1861 -
1929
Passed: ≈
95 years ago
Title
Writer
Country/Nationality
Elizabeth Bisland
Books by Elizabeth Bisland
In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World by Elizabeth Bisland
Adventure
Non-Fiction
Travel
Biography
19th century
Adventure
Travel
Journey
Competition
Feminist
Around the world
Cosmopolitan
Phileas Fogg
Nellie Bly
New York World
Record
In "In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World", Elizabeth Bisland recounts her own attempt to circumnavigate the globe, racing against journalist Nellie Bly in a real-life echo of Jules Verne's "Around the World in Eighty Days." Bisland, dispa...