- Description: Harriet Chalmers Adams was an American explorer, writer, and photographer, hailed as one of the most influential female travelers of her era. Raised in California, she began exploring the Sierra Nevada by horseback as a child. In 1900, she and her husband embarked on a three-year South American expedition, visiting every country and traversing the Andes, mostly on horseback. Between 1907 and 1935, she authored 21 National Geographic articles, richly illustrated with her own photographs, and became known for her engaging lectures featuring colored slides and films. In 1925 she helped establish the Society of Woman Geographers, serving as its first president until 1933. She traveled over 100,000 miles (160,000 km)
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1875-1937
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Chalmers_Adams
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q670843
- Description: Anne‑France Dautheville is a French journalist, writer, and motorcyclist, celebrated as the first woman to motorcycle solo around the world. In 1972, she participated in the Orion Raid, riding a Moto Guzzi V7 from Paris to Isfahan (Iran), continuing through Afghanistan and Pakistan, and documented the journey in Une demoiselle sur une moto (1973). In 1973 she completed her solo circumnavigation - covering about 20,000 km (12,500 miles) across three continents on a Kawasaki 125 - retold in Et j’ai suivi le vent (1975). She later rode across Australia on a BMW in 1975 and traveled through Latin America on a Honda 250 in 1981, chronicling her journeys through numerous books and reports
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: France, Francia
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1944-
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Motorbike, Motocicletta, Moto
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne-France_Dautheville
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26425112
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Dautheville, Anne‑France. Une demoiselle sur une moto. Flammarion, 1973.
- Description: Dave Barr was a Vietnam veteran, and the first double amputee to circumnavigate the globe on a motorcycle. In 1990, riding a 1972 Harley-Davidson Super Glide with no support, he spent approximately 3,5 years covering 83,000 miles (134,000 km) across six continents. In 1996‑1997, he set a record by traversing Europe, Russia, and Siberia in winter, covering 13,000 miles (20,900 km) under extreme conditions. In 2002, he completed Australia’s four cardinal extremes in 10,000 miles (16,000 km) in 45 days, known as the “Southern Cross” ride
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1952-2024
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Motorbike, Motocicletta, Moto
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://www.davebarr1972.com
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5228296
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Barr, Dave. Riding the Edge. 1995.
- Description: Charlotte Cameron, born Wales‑Almy, was an American-born traveler who reinvented herself as a British aristocrat. She was among the first women to walk parts of Africa - circling approximately 20,000 miles (32,000 km) - and documented colonial injustices. Her travels spanned Scotland (1893), Australia (1921), Alaska, Mexico, and South America. She became a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1913 and was awarded the Order of the British Empire after World War I. She preferred to be considered a traveler rather than an explorer
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Lady Cameron
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: UK, Inglese, Anglais
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Cameron
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18875494
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Cameron, Charlotte (Mrs.). A Woman’s Winter in Africa: A 26,000‑Mile Journey. 1913.
- Description: Steve Fonyo was a Canadian amputee runner known for his “Journey for Lives” across Canada between 1984 and 1985. Starting in St. John’s, he completed the coast-to-coast run in approximately 425 days, covering 7,924 km (4,922 miles) and raising over CAD 14 million for cancer research. He was appointed to the Order of Canada in 1985, later revoked in 2010
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Canada
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1965-2022
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On foot, A piedi, A pied
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Canada
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Fonyo
- Multimedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurt_(2015_film)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7612565
- Description: Sjaak Lucassen is a Dutch long-distance motorcycle traveler renowned for his daring global expeditions. From 1995 to 1998, he logged about 160,000 km (100,000 miles) on a Honda Fireblade. Between 2001 and 2006, he circumnavigated the globe - covering 250,000 km (155,000 miles) - on a Yamaha YZF‑R1 nicknamed “Florentina”. In 2013, he rode from Barrow, Alaska to Key West, Florida, starting with a traversal over sea ice of the Beaufort Sea, towing a sledge. He estimates he’s spent nearly ten years of his life riding. Around 2015, he began building a custom R1 ("aRctic1") to attempt a solo ride to the North Pole under -40 °C conditions across polar ice
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Netherlands, Olanda, Hollande
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1961-
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Motorbike, Motocicletta, Moto
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: http://www.sjaaklucassen.nl
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16194173
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Sjaak Lucassen, Life on 2 wheels, R1 GOES EXTREME, 2014.
- Description: Mária Fáy, known by her married name Béláné Mocsáry, was a Hungarian geographer, traveler, and writer - one of the first women in Hungary to extensively document her journeys. Widowed in 1890, she embarked on remarkable travels, alone or with her sister, throughout the Balkans, the Middle East (Greece, Turkey, Palestine, Egypt, Nubia), India, Sri Lanka, North America (including Alaska), Mexico, and South America. Between 1899 and 1905, she published several travelogues illustrated with her own photographs: India and Ceylon’s Notes (1899, expanded version in 1901), My Journey on the West Coast of North America (1902), and My Journey to Mexico: Travel Notes (1905)
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Mária Mocsáry
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Hungary, Ungheria, Hongrie
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1845-1917
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9l%C3%A1n%C3%A9_Mocs%C3%A1ry
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34223407
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Fáy Mária [Béláné Mocsáry]. India and Ceylon’s Notes. Budapest, 1899.
- Description: William James Percy Beresford Greatheed, also known as Greathead, was among the first to walk across Canada from coast to coast. He left Vancouver on March 2, 1895, and reached Halifax about twelve months later. This trek was intended as the opening stage of a proposed round-the-world walk, based on a wager among Vancouver clubs offering $50,000 to complete five years of travel without money or luggage, relying solely on personal effort
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Greathead
- 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: Canada
- Description: Clare Consuelo Sheridan was an English sculptor, journalist, and writer - and Winston Churchill’s cousin - known for her daring 1924 motorcycle journey. Disillusioned by the Soviet Revolution in 1923, which had led to her being declared persona non grata in Russia, she nevertheless secured a visa and, with her brother Oswald Frewen, rode approximately 6,801 km (4,226 miles) from Sussex to Odessa on a 799 cc, 7 hp AJS motorcycle with sidecar - nicknamed “Satanella” - widely regarded as the first British motorcycle in the USSR
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: UK, Inglese, Anglais
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1885-1970
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Motorbike, Motocicletta, Moto
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Europe, Europa, Asia
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Sheridan
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q519590
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Sheridan, Clare. Across Europe with Satanella. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1925.
People .asked why we did not take a motor instead of a motor ‘sidecar. They were extra-ordiriarily fertile in recommending makes of motor-cars. And I had to explain that - yes, we have no motor-car - no, we belong to the fraternity of vagabonds.
Sheridan, Clare. Across Europe with Satanella. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1925.
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