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Eighty Days by Matthew Goodman

Eighty Days

Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World

by Matthew Goodman
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  • Feb 26, 2013, 480 pages
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  • Mar 2014, 496 pages
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