在wiki看時發現了Nellie Bly這位近百年前一位女記者的故事。她曾經深入精神病院採訪，又打敗了故事《80日環遊世界》的設定，這位活於百多年前的二十多歲女孩，不過用了72天。
“I want to go around in eighty days or less. I think I can beat Phileas Fogg’s record. May I try it?” 她這樣對編輯說。一年後，她獲得了許可。
“I always have a comfortable feeling that nothing is impossible if one applies a certain amount of energy in the right direction.”
“Someone suggested that a revolver would be a good companion piece for the passport, but I had such a strong belief in the world’s greeting me as I greeted it, that I refused to arm myself. I knew if my conduct was proper I should always find men ready to protect me, let them be Americans, English, French, German or anything else.”
我被她的故事深深吸引著。網上有她1890年出版的書的全文：
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/bly/world/world.html
似乎是簡單的英文，我要看了。
P.S. 她也曾經深入當年的精神病院進行秘密採訪，出版了《Ten Days in a Mad-House》，跟《Around the World in Seventy-Two Days》都轟一時，有興趣可到這裡閱讀全文。
