On November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly set off on her race around the ... who had been the first to make a record of a flying trip around the world, and I rejoiced with them that it was an American ...

Bly." For six months, Nellie knocked on the doors of New ... Perhaps the peak of Bly's fame came when she took a whirlwind trip around the world in 1889 to beat Phileas Fogg, the fictional hero ...