- Description: On April 25, 2001, Alberto Fiorin, Aldo Maroso, and eight other friends set off from Venice on bicycles headed for Beijing. The Silk Road required 96 days of effort, covering a total of 12,000 kilometers across Europe and Asia
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Italy, Italia, Italie
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1960-
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Silk Road, Via della seta, Route de la soie
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Maroso A., Fiorin A., Strade d’Oriente : in bicicletta da Venezia a Pechino, Ediciclo editore, 2003.
- Description: In 1907, Luigi Barzini accompanied Prince Scipione Borghese in the famous Beijing to Paris automobile race, a competition they won
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Italy, Italia, Italie
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1874-1947
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Car or similar, Mezzi a motore, Moyen motorisé
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Barzini L., La metà del mondo vista da un'automobile: da Pechino a Parigi in sessanta giorni, Milano: U. Hoepli, 1908.
- Description: The Bauer brothers set off from Buffalo, New York, and headed on horseback to South America
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Bauer Brothers
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On horseback, A cavallo, A cheval
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Americas, Americhe, Amérique
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Overland to South America
- Description: In the 1910s, he set off on a 10'000 km world tour accompanied by a 300 kg barrel
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Le Déménageur
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: France, Francia
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On foot, A piedi, A pied
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Le Tour du Monde. 10 000 kilomètres en roulant un tonneau du poids total de 300 kilogrammes par BARUET "Le Déménageur", ex-champion de lutte à l'exposition de 1889, auteur et recordman de la voiture à bras : 1 200 kilos.
- Description: Charles Cecil Fitzmorris’s career began early, when in 1900 he won a round-the-world trip in a contest and a job as a "super" office boy at the Evening American, an afternoon newspaper. He departed from Chicago and, after 60 days, 13 hours and 20 minutes, returned to the city, completing his journey around the world and setting a new travel record
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- 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: https://www.wingnet.org/rtw/RTW001P.HTM
- Description: In 2008, Adrian Flanagan completed a round-the-world boat trip, circumnavigating the globe vertically: 31'000 miles in 405 days, 18 hours, and 50 minutes
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: -
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Boat, ship, Barca, nave, Bateau
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Flanagan
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4685015
- Description: American globetrotter who cycled from Jackson, Michigan, to Denver, Colorado
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Bike, Bicicletta, Vélo
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: USA
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: P. L. Fison 1500 miles, pedaling from Jackson, Mich., to Denver, Colo.
- Description: In the photo taken in 1913 in Paris, Prof. Battelli is depicted with Elide Della Bosca. In the Corriere di Trapani (issue 22, 1913), there is an interview with Battelli, in which it is noted that the around-the-world walk was the result of a 'challenge with the American press'
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: -
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On foot, A piedi, A pied
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Description: In 1884, Charles Fletcher Lummis walked the 3'500 miles from Chicago to Los Angeles. He documented his 143-day journey with weekly updates published in newspapers
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1859-1928
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On foot, A piedi, A pied
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: USA
- Internet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fletcher_Lummis
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2959074
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Fletcher C., A Tramp Across the Continent, C. Scribner's sons, 1892.
Ma perché vagabondare? Non vi sono abbastanza ferrovie e linee di pullman perché si debba camminare? È quello che mi hanno detto tantissimi amici quando hanno saputo della mia decisione di viaggiare a piedi dall'Ohio alla California; e molto probabilmente è anche la prima domanda che vi verrà in mente nel leggere della più lunga camminata per puro diletto che sia stata mai registrata. (...)
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