Jules Verne had imagined a world tour in eighty days. Nellie Bly decides to confront this duration with trains, ships and real-world connections. The journalist embarks on a race where schedules matter as much as distances.
His journey becomes an event followed by readers. Unlike the fictional hero, it depends on a very concrete transport network, with its constraints and its chains. The journey ends in just over seventy-two days.
So she beat the deadline for the novel. But the interest of the adventure is beyond the clock: a female journalist occupies the center of an exploration story that the time reserved for men. Phileas Fogg never existed. The one who got ahead of him, yes.
What we know
The challenge relates to the delay of the novel, not to a real competition against its character.
To go to the source
References consulted on September 20, 2026. Linked pages may be in another language.
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