page_title: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
section_title: Homecoming
hierarchical_section_title: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days / Homecoming
caption_attribution_description: English: Illustration of Elizabeth Cochrane, aka Nelly Bly, in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1890. Caption reads: "Around the world in seventy-two days and six hours - reception of Nellie Bly at Jersey City on the completion of her journey." Includes two vignettes (inset) titled: "Presenting the Globe-Girdler a Golden Globe" and "The Arrival in Philadelphia."
context_page_description: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days is an 1890 book by journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochrane, writing under her pseudonym, Nellie Bly. The chronicle details her 72-day trip around the world, which was inspired by the 1873 book Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne. She carried out the journey for Joseph Pulitzer's tabloid newspaper, the New York World.
context_section_description: As a result of rough weather on her Pacific crossing, she arrived in San Francisco on the White Star liner Oceanic on January 21, two days behind schedule. However, World owner Pulitzer chartered a private train to bring her home, and she arrived back in New Jersey on January 25, 1890, at 3:51 p.m.
  Bly arrived back in New York seventy-two days and six hours and 11 minutes after leaving Hoboken.  At the time, Bisland was still going around the world. Like Bly, she had missed a connection and had to board a slow, old ship (the Bothina) in the place of a fast ship (Etruria). Bly's journey, at the time, was a world record, though it was bettered a few months later by George Francis Train, who completed the journey in 67 days. By 1913, Andre Jaeger-Schmidt, Henry Frederick and John Henry Mears had improved on the record, the latter completing the journey in less than 36 days.
caption: A woodcut image of Nellie Bly's homecoming reception in Jersey City printed in Frank Leslie's Illustrated News on 8 February 1890.
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