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This interesting and rare game was made just sfter Nellie Bly was travelling round the world trying to brake Phileas Foggs record as told by Jules Verne. It was possibly designed as a race between the two ladies who racing each other in different directions.
Nellie Bly was already well known for her exposure of an asylum (10 Days in a Mad House). She was working for The World Newspaper who followed her progress.
At the same time, The New York Newspaper, Cosmopolitan, sponsored its own reporter, Elizabeth Bisland, to beat the time of both Phileas Fogg and Bly. Bisland would travel the opposite way around the world. To sustain interest in the story, The World organized a Nellie Bly Guessing Match in which readers were asked to estimate Blys arrival time to the second, with the Grand Prize consisting at first of (only) a free trip to Europe and, later on, spending money for the trip
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. Critically, while in England, Bisland was told (and apparently believed) she had missed her intended ride, the swift German steamer Ems leaving from Southampton, even though her publisher had bribed the shipping company to delay its departure. She was thus forced to catch the slow-going Bothnia on January 18, departing from Queenstown (Cobh), Ireland, ensuring that Bly would prevail.
Bisland's ship did not arrive in New York until January 30, so she completed her trip in 76 1/2 days, also ahead of Fogg's fictional record..
The Board Game follows the route taken by Nellie Bly as far as we can see. through England, France (where she met Jules Verne in Amiens), Brindisi, the Suez Canal, Colombo (Ceylon), the Straits Settlements of Penang and Singapore, Hong Kong, and Japan
The strange thing isthat the numbers start as 1 in London but the rules that play can start from anywhere Possibly not a good seller in the States so made more flexible???.
Race Around the World - Complete - Board Game with two dials - one removable that stores markers and rules - Book style board - cover is very good - scuffed but good - playing area is a little grubby and scuffed at the edges - original rules and period if not original markers
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