Eighty Days: Nellie Bly And Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
jball says:
One of the great delights of browsing through the library's audio-books, looking for something to feed or entertain my mind while doing mindless chores, is stumbling upon golden nuggets like this. I love reading something that encapsulates a moment in our history and gives a window onto the people and life of the times. The perfect balance of storytelling and history, this book is a delightful glimpse into the late 19th century. It's also a wonderful book for girls encouraging both mi...ghtiness and womanhood - two things that are often pitted against one another instead of paired. While I found some of the author's description bordering on tedious and could hear his personal bias in some of his assumptions of what the two women "must have" thought or intended, overall it was a wonderful read/listen and I count it alongside "Splendid Solution" and "Higher: A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City" as one my best "accidental" audiobook finds!
HP_LOVERmro says:
A thoroughly engaging look at the race of two women around the world at a time when they weren't supposed to go about unchaperoned at all. I'll admit; I'd never heard of Elizabeth Bisland before this book but I need to look up her other writings. Of the two, Elizabeth seems to actually enjoy her trip; Nellie is just trying to beat the clock. Still, both voyages around the world were fascinating to read about and Goodman presents the stories in an engaging way, combining some poetic license among all the facts to make it a true narrative and not just an accounting of the race.MoreLess
One of the great delights of browsing through the library's audio-books, looking for something to feed or entertain my mind while doing mindless chores, is stumbling upon golden nuggets like this. I love reading something that encapsulates a moment in our history and gives a window onto the people and life of the times. The perfect balance of storytelling and history, this book is a delightful glimpse into the late 19th century. It's also a wonderful book for girls encouraging both mi...ghtiness and womanhood - two things that are often pitted against one another instead of paired. While I found some of the author's description bordering on tedious and could hear his personal bias in some of his assumptions of what the two women "must have" thought or intended, overall it was a wonderful read/listen and I count it alongside "Splendid Solution" and "Higher: A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City" as one my best "accidental" audiobook finds!
HP_LOVERmro says:
A thoroughly engaging look at the race of two women around the world at a time when they weren't supposed to go about unchaperoned at all. I'll admit; I'd never heard of Elizabeth Bisland before this book but I need to look up her other writings. Of the two, Elizabeth seems to actually enjoy her trip; Nellie is just trying to beat the clock. Still, both voyages around the world were fascinating to read about and Goodman presents the stories in an engaging way, combining some poetic license among all the facts to make it a true narrative and not just an accounting of the race.MoreLess
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