Seventy-five days.
Two very different women.
One incredible race.

In the late 1800s, the world was enchanted with speed. Steamships raced across oceans, locomotives dashed across continents, and a famous novel by Jules Verne imagined a man circling the globe in only eighty days.

A fearless New York reporter called Nellie Bly thought she could be faster. She set out on a ship heading east across the Atlantic, and vowed to be back in seventy-five days!

That same night, another New York reporter found herself on a speeding train to San Francisco. Her name was Elizabeth Bisland, and she'd just been given a most astonishing assignment: to travel around the world, going west, and to beat Nellie Bly.

This is the true story of two remarkable women who didn't just race around the world—they changed it.

From the dust jacket