Nellie Bly, Jules Verne, and the World on the Threshold of the American Age

• Published in: Canadian Review of American Studies
• Main Author: Ruddick, Nicholas
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) 1999
• Subjects: Literature and Literary Theory; History; Cultural Studies; North Pole; Jules; Verne
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cras-029-01-01; https://utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/CRAS-029-01-01

There was a model of the terrestrial globe, some forty feet in circum- ference, therefore about the size of an ordinary three-story house: the reduction from reality was one millionth. It was not only the globe of the school-room magnified,—it was a synopsis of the conditions and the resources of th...