Hall of Fame: The Tenacious Traveller

About this episode

The episode explores the journeys of Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland, two pioneering women adventurers.

At last, Trapped History's inaugural Hall of Fame nomination is here: Rosemary Brown's nominee from our very first episode. You may remember that Rosemary joined us to find out all about the marvellous Nellie Bly, adventurer, entrepreneur, war reporter and one of the very first investigative journalists in history. And perhaps Nellie's greatest exploit was to play Jules Verne at his own game and travel around the world in (under) 80 days. But Nellie wasn't the only person to do that. There was another woman travelling around the world . . . So tune in to hear the story of that other great tenacious traveller, Elizabeth Bisland. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy Head over to www.trappedhistory.com to sign up to the award-winning podcast, get our newsletter, bonus episodes and much, much more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Trapped History

Guest: Elizabeth Bisland

Topics covered

• adventure
• journalism
• women in history
• exploration
• investigative reporting

Keywords

• Nellie Bly
• Elizabeth Bisland
• travel
• investigative journalism
• women explorers

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