Лучшие книги Нелли Блай

«Профессия: репортерка» — сборник лучших статей Элизабет Джейн Кокран (она же Нелли Блай), основоположницы жанра журналистского расследования и одной из первых корреспонденток в истории. Вас ждут приключения в «тиндере» конца XIX века и харассмент в парках Нью-Йорка, расследование системы принудительного психиатрического лечения, описание прекарного труда упаковщиц на фабрике, разоблачения фальшивых гипнотизеров и бизнеса по продаже младенцев. Она обращала внимание на несправедливость, угнетение слабых и бедственное положение женщин и в итоге добилась изменений в американском обществе — например, ее текст «Десять дней в сумасшедшем доме»…

Перевод знаменитой статьи Нелли Блай (Элизабет Джейн Кошрейн, 1864 — 1922) о ее опыте заключения в сумасшедшем доме, опубликованной в формате книги в 1887 году.

Совершенно одна — а в те времена женщинам не было свойственно путешествовать без спутника — с маленьким саквояжем, Нелли Блай объехала всю планету. Она познакомилась с самим Жюлем Верном — удивив его твердостью своего характера, — сменила несколько океанических пароходов и поездов — и в результате — более чем на неделю обогнала Филеаса Фогга. Поскольку она путешествовала от газеты «Нью-Йорк Уорлд», руководимой самим Джозефом Пулитцером, она вела репортаж, который позднее стал книгой.

Welcome to the3 Books To Knowseries, our idea is to help readers learn about fascinating topics through three essential and relevant books. These carefully selected works can be fiction, non-fiction, historical documents or even biographies. We will always select for you three great works to instigate your mind, this time the topic is:Travel Literature. - Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad - Typee, by Herman Melville - Around the World in Seventy-Two Days Nellie BlyHeart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad about a narrated voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State in the so-called Heart of Africa. Charles Marlow, the narrator, tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames. This setting provides the frame for Marlow's story of his obsession with the ivory trader Kurtz, which enables Conrad to create a parallel between what Conrad calls "the greatest town on earth", London, and Africa as places of darkness. Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life is the first book by American writer Herman Melville, published first in London, then New York, in 1846. Considered a classic in travel and adventure literature, the narrative is partly based on the author's actual experiences on the island Nuku Hiva in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands in 1842, liberally supplemented with imaginative reconstruction and adaptation of material from other books. The title is from the province Tai Pi Vai. Typee was Melville's most popular work during his lifetime; it made him notorious as the "man who lived among the cannibals". 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 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. This is one of many books in the series 3 Books To Know. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the topics.

Six Months in Mexico was written by Nellie Bly in 1888. It is an important work that shows what Mexico was like at the end of the 1800s, as well as Nellie Bly's perception and experience of Mexico, as a woman living there.

Nellie Bly writes: "One Wintry Night I bade my few journalistic friends Adieu, And, accompanied by my mother, started on my way to Mexico."