- Description: Elizabeth Bisland Wetmore was an American journalist who, between 1889 and 1890, engaged in a race around the world against the more famous Nellie Bly. The idea was to retrace the steps outlined by Jules Verne in the novel "Around the World in 80 Days". On November 14, 1889, the two journalists departed from New York: Nellie Bly, sponsored by the New York World newspaper, headed west, while Elizabeth Bisland, sponsored by Cosmopolitan magazine, headed east. Ideally, both ladies outperformed Phileas Fogg: Nellie Bly set a new record by returning to New York on January 25, 1890, taking 72 days, 6 hours, and 11 minutes to complete the world tour. Bisland returned a few days later, specifically on January 30, 1890, thus taking 76 days
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: B.L.R. Dane
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1861-1929
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/bisland/stages/stages.html
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5362424
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Bisland E., A Flying Trip Around The World, 1891. Marks J., Around the World in 72 Days: The race between Pulitzer's Nellie Bly and Cosmopolitan's Elizabeth Bisland, Gemittarius Press, 1993.
If, on the 13th of November, 1889, some amateur prophet had foretold that I should spend Christmas Day of that year in the Indian Ocean, I hope I should not by any open and insulting incredulity have added new burdens to the trials of a hard-working soothsayer – I hope I should, with the gentleness due a severe case of aberrated predictiveness, have merely called his attention to that passage in the Koran in which it is written, "The Lord loveth a cheerful liar" – and bid him go in peace. Yet I did spend the 25th day of December steaming through the waters that wash the shores of the Indian Empire, and did do other things equally preposterous, of which I would not have believed myself capable if forewarned of them. I can only claim in excuse that these vagaries were unpremeditated, for the prophets neglected their opportunity and I received no augury.
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