The Woman Who Traveled Around The World In 72 Days

We all know Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic book where the main character, Phileas Fogg of London, flew around the world in 80 days. It was published in 1872. But not much longer after Verne published the book, a woman named Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman, known by her pen name as a famous journalist, Nellie Bly, flew around the world in 72 days herself. It would be only 16 years later in 1888.