Fictionalized accounts of the true stories of three people who made separate attempts to travel around the world in the late nineteenth century, including Thomas Stevens, who made the journey on a bicycle, reporter Nellie Bly, who used conventional methods of travel, and sea captain Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail around the world alone.

The journey of Thomas Steves, wheelman, 1884 -- The journey of Nellie Bly, girl reporter, 1889 -- The journey of Joshua Slocum, mariner, 1895.