Miss Elizabeth Bisland, who made a journey around the world in seventy-six days, has written a vivid and agreeable account of it. At breakfast-time on the day when she started, Miss Bisland had no idea that she was to make such a journey. She went without escort, and "managed 'he trip on two cloth gowns, half a dozen light bodices, and an evening silk." Everywhere she received the kindest treatment, her only unhappy experience seeming to have been at Queenstown, where she caught the steamer under somewhat trying ...
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Miss Elizabeth Bisland, who made a journey around the world in seventy-six days, has written a vivid and agreeable account of it. At breakfast-time on the day when she started, Miss Bisland had no idea that she was to make such a journey. She went without escort, and "managed 'he trip on two cloth gowns, half a dozen light bodices, and an evening silk." Everywhere she received the kindest treatment, her only unhappy experience seeming to have been at Queenstown, where she caught the steamer under somewhat trying circumstances. She writes picturesquely and compactly, and her story is well worth reading. A picture of the flying traveler accompanies the volume. It will commend itself to anybody. -"N. Y. Sun" [1891] The authoress, who is a well-known New York journalist, started off with scarce a days notice, in emulation of Jules Verne's hero, to see in how few days she can put a belt round the world. Seventy-six days it takes her, and the record of her travel makes very agreeable reading, although lacking in the sensational incidents evolved from M. Jules Verne's brain. -"The Review of Review"s, Vol. 4 [1891]
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