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Quoting extensively from Dr. Martin Luther King's sermons and speeches, the author chronicles King's rise from a young minister in Montgomery, Alabama to the world's greatest spokesperson for civil rights.
72 Days Around the World
Review of the Loomingu Raamatukogu Estonian language paperback (2021) translated from the original English language edition (1890)
See photograph at https://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2_NellieBlyPosingf...
1889 Photograph of Nellie Bly in her single dress and coat holding her single piece of hand luggage before setting out on her journey around the world. Image from the Library of Congress sourced from Nellie Bly Around the World
The above book synopsis gives a summary of the early career of Nellie Bly, the penname of Elizabeth Jane Cochran (1864-1922), and points to her earlier books 10 Days in a Madhouse (1887) and Six Months in Mexico (1888). I read her Seitsmekümne kahe päevaga ümber maailma (translated from her Around the World in 72 Days (1890)) in my heritage language of Estonian as it was a recent issue of the regular literary journal Loomingu Raamatukogu (The Creation Library) which issues various short works of translated world literature and Estonian authors.
Around the World in 72 Days is fascinating for the picture it paints of world travel at the time and the interactions with other travellers and the guides and world peoples that Nellie Bly encounters. Bly wrote under a penname as that was the convention for women writers at the time. Bly has to undertake the journey on only a few days notice, having proposed it to her newspaper editors a year previously and being turned down at the time. Inspired by the idea of beating the fictional record of Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days (1872), Bly sets herself a target of 75 days and manages to beat it. She uses the few days notice to trim down her wardrobe and baggage to a single dress and coat and a small hand luggage, in order to ensure no travel delays due to baggage problems. Compare that to some of the people she encounters who are travelling with 14 suitcases.
She hits several of the same ports of call as Verne's fictional Phileas Fogg, and manages to make a side trip in France to meet Mr. and Mrs. Verne in person who cheer her on her way. I wouldn't say there were any particular surprises or shocks in the journey except for the stop in Canton (present day Guangzhou, China where the local tourist guide seems to delight in presenting the criminal execution grounds and boasting of the numbers of executioner's victims.
Bly states that her main regret was not bringing a Kodak camera (invented in 1888) along for the journey. Her travels have been retroactively reconstructed pictorially at the Nellie Bly Around the World web pages.
The Estonian translation and supplementary Afterword by translator Riina Jesmin was excellent as is always the case with the Loomingu Raamatukogu issues.
Trivia and Links
The Loomingu Raamatukogu (The Creation Library) is a modestly priced Estonian literary journal which initially published weekly (from 1957 to 1994) and which now publishes 40 issues a year as of 1995. It is a great source for discovery as its relatively cheap prices (currently 4.50€ per issue) allow for access to a multitude of international writers in Estonian translation and of shorter works by Estonian authors themselves. These include poetry, theatre, essays, short stories, novellas and novels (the lengthier works are usually parceled out over several issues).
For a complete listing of all works issued to date by Loomingu Raamatukogu see Estonian Wikipedia at: https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loomingu_Raamatukogus_ilmunud_teoste_loend_aastak%...… (més)
Review of the Loomingu Raamatukogu Estonian language paperback (2021) translated from the original English language edition (1890)
The young journalist Nellie Bly (1864–1922) excelled in America in the 1880s with many innovative works: she did not want to limit herself to the horticultural and cultural topics for female journalists, but also wrote about the situation of women in factories, worked as the first foreign correspondent in Mexico. and was, among other things, one of the founders of embedded journalism, exposing a brutal life at the Blackwell Island Mental Hospital as an undercover patient.
In 1888, she proposed to the editor-in-chief of The New York World the idea of traveling around the world faster than Phileas Fogg, the hero of Jules Verne's novel Eighty Days Around the World. In November 1889, at a time when women's unaccompanied travel was still looked at askance, this race began with an enthusiastic American audience. To the delight of the readers of the travelogue, the travel connections were not always very smooth at the time, and so Nellie Bly had some time to get involved in local life and to describe it. In conclusion, a book was published, which is a reflection of the life and attitudes of a very particular era. - translated from the Estonian language synopsis
See photograph at https://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2_NellieBlyPosingf...
1889 Photograph of Nellie Bly in her single dress and coat holding her single piece of hand luggage before setting out on her journey around the world. Image from the Library of Congress sourced from Nellie Bly Around the World
The above book synopsis gives a summary of the early career of Nellie Bly, the penname of Elizabeth Jane Cochran (1864-1922), and points to her earlier books 10 Days in a Madhouse (1887) and Six Months in Mexico (1888). I read her Seitsmekümne kahe päevaga ümber maailma (translated from her Around the World in 72 Days (1890)) in my heritage language of Estonian as it was a recent issue of the regular literary journal Loomingu Raamatukogu (The Creation Library) which issues various short works of translated world literature and Estonian authors.
Around the World in 72 Days is fascinating for the picture it paints of world travel at the time and the interactions with other travellers and the guides and world peoples that Nellie Bly encounters. Bly wrote under a penname as that was the convention for women writers at the time. Bly has to undertake the journey on only a few days notice, having proposed it to her newspaper editors a year previously and being turned down at the time. Inspired by the idea of beating the fictional record of Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days (1872), Bly sets herself a target of 75 days and manages to beat it. She uses the few days notice to trim down her wardrobe and baggage to a single dress and coat and a small hand luggage, in order to ensure no travel delays due to baggage problems. Compare that to some of the people she encounters who are travelling with 14 suitcases.
She hits several of the same ports of call as Verne's fictional Phileas Fogg, and manages to make a side trip in France to meet Mr. and Mrs. Verne in person who cheer her on her way. I wouldn't say there were any particular surprises or shocks in the journey except for the stop in Canton (present day Guangzhou, China where the local tourist guide seems to delight in presenting the criminal execution grounds and boasting of the numbers of executioner's victims.
Bly states that her main regret was not bringing a Kodak camera (invented in 1888) along for the journey. Her travels have been retroactively reconstructed pictorially at the Nellie Bly Around the World web pages.
The Estonian translation and supplementary Afterword by translator Riina Jesmin was excellent as is always the case with the Loomingu Raamatukogu issues.
Trivia and Links
The Loomingu Raamatukogu (The Creation Library) is a modestly priced Estonian literary journal which initially published weekly (from 1957 to 1994) and which now publishes 40 issues a year as of 1995. It is a great source for discovery as its relatively cheap prices (currently 4.50€ per issue) allow for access to a multitude of international writers in Estonian translation and of shorter works by Estonian authors themselves. These include poetry, theatre, essays, short stories, novellas and novels (the lengthier works are usually parceled out over several issues).
For a complete listing of all works issued to date by Loomingu Raamatukogu see Estonian Wikipedia at: https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loomingu_Raamatukogus_ilmunud_teoste_loend_aastak%...… (més)
Nacida como Elizabeth Jane Cochran, Nellie Bly fue una de las primeras y mejores periodistas en Estados Unidos. Se convirtió en un fenómeno nacional a fines del siglo XIX, con un juego de mesa basado en sus aventuras y merchadasing inspirado en la ropa que usaba. Este volumen, la única colección impresa y editada de las escrituras de Bly, incluye sus obras más conocidas: "Diez días en un manicomio", "Seis meses en México" y "Alrededor del mundo en setenta y dos días", así como muchas piezas menos conocidas que captan la amplitud de su carrera desde sus feroces artículos de opinión hasta su notable reportaje de la Primera Guerra Mundial.… (més)
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