Around the World in Seventy-Two Days - And Other Writings

Born Elizabeth Jane Cochran, Nellie Bly was renowned as America''s first ''girl stunt reporter''. She was a pioneer of investigative journalism, including an expos-f patient treatment at a mental asylum and a travelogue from her record-breaking race around the world in emulation of Phileas Fogg. This volume, the only printed and edited collection of Bly''s writings, includes her best-known works as well as many lesser-known pieces that capture the breadth of her career from her fierce opinion pieces to her remarkable World War I reporting.