Page "Nellie Bly" Paragraph 14

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, and with two days ' notice, she boarded the Augusta Victoria, a steamer of the Hamburg America Line, and began her 24, 899-mile journey.