- Description: Burnest Heard, who called himself the "World's Greatest Lover", embarked on a remarkable journey, walking from Vancouver, BC to Halifax, NS and back. Starting on June 1, 1937, he completed the first leg of his trip in 19 months, arriving in Halifax in December 1939. To emphasize that he did not hitchhike, Heard pushed a 150-pound oil drum across the country. He financed his journey by selling postcards of himself for 10 cents each, claiming to have sold 18'000, and paid for his own accommodations and meals. After resting in Halifax, he began his return trip on February 1, 1940, taking nearly three years to get back to Vancouver in December 1942. His first cross-country journey was extensively covered in newspapers across the US and Canada, whereas his return journey received attention only in the Canadian media
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Canada
- 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
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Burnest Heard is the World greatest lover on a Walk across Canada, Vancouver to Halifax
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- Description: George Burston was among the daring pioneers and lovers of the velocipede. Before the introduction of the inner tube, he set a record for 100 miles (161 km) on the road in 8 hours and 9 minutes. On November 1, 1889, he began a world tour with Harry R. Stokes, becoming the first Australians to undertake the endeavor. With their penny-farthing machines, they set off from Melbourne towards Sydney. Their route took them through Java, Singapore, India, Egypt, and Europe. They returned to Australia via the United States, where they did not use their bicycles. They described their journey in the book "Round the World on Bicycles"
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Australia
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1859-1924
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Velocipede, Vélocipède
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/items/408343
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Booth Anne L., Riding high: Burston & Stokes centenary ride, 1888-1988, Bicycle Victoria, 1988. Burston G. W., Stokes H. R., Round the world on bicycles, Melbourne, George Robertson and Company, 1890.
Bicycle - H. Bassett & Co, Melbourne, George Burston, 1888. High wheel bicycle of the 'ordinary' or 'spider' type with a 1.422m (56-inch) wheel. This 'Victory' model was assembled in Melbourne from imported components by Henry Bassett & Co. of 4 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne in 1888-89. The frame was nickel-plated. This bicycle was used by Melbourne Bicycle Club member (later President) George Burston on a round-the-world' bicycle journey in 1889-90.
- Description: Eugen Hafner is a young globetrotter who started a world tour in the late 1920s
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Negue Renfah
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Germany, Germania, Allemagne
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1902-
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Bike, Bicicletta, Vélo
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
È stato ieri in visita alla nostra redazione, un giovane bavarese, il signor Negue Renfah, giornalista, che sta effettuando il giro del mondo in bicicletta. Partito da Monaco il 1 dello scorso giugno il signor Renfah ha attraversato la Germania del Nord, la Polonia e la Svizzera percorrendo 7'400 km; si è diretto verso l'Italia stamane, intenzionato di visitare poi la Turchia e la Palestina.
- Description: Tour of France undertaken by two unnamed disabled individuals
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: France, Francia
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1891-
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: -
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: France, Francia
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Porte-bonheur, Le tour de France de deux infirmes, Infirmes du poumon, amputé d'un bras, ne pouvant exercer aucun métier, nous vous offrons notre carte, nous remettant à votre bon coeur. Né le 1891 à Levallois-Perret
- Description: In 1999, Doris Haddock, a spry 89-year-old, walked from Pasadena, California, to Washington D.C., covering a total of 3,055 miles (4,917 km). It took her 400 days
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Granny D
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- 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: USA
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Haddock D., Burke D., Granny D: Walking Across America in My Ninetieth Year, Villard Books, 2001.
- Description: Karl Bushby is an English former paratrooper, author and walking adventurer. After serving 11 years with the 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, he conceived the Goliath Expedition - an attempt to become the first person to walk an unbroken path around the world without using any form of transport, including across water. On 1 November 1998 he departed from Punta Arenas, Chile, heading northward. His route has taken him through South America, the Darién Gap, Central America, the United States and Alaska, across the Bering Strait on foot with French adventurer Dimitri Kieffer in March 2006 - the first crossing on foot from Alaska to Siberia - then through Russia, Mongolia, China, Central Asia and the Caucasus. The expedition has been repeatedly interrupted by visa complications, financial difficulties, and the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in approximately 13 years of active walking over 26 years on the road. In October 2024, unable to transit Iran, he completed the crossing of the Caspian Sea by swimming 288 km with Angela Maxwell and two professional Azerbaijani swimmers over 32 days. By April 2025 he had covered over 47,000 km across four continents, 25 countries, six deserts and seven mountain ranges, and was walking through Turkey toward his final destination of Hull, England
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Goliath Expedition
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: UK, Inglese, Anglais
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1969-
- 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
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Bushby
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q432808
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Bushby, Karl. Giant Steps: The Karl Bushby Story. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2006.
- Description: In 1907, Colonel Burnley Campbell set the new world record for circumnavigating the globe: 40 days, 19 hours, and 30 minutes
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- 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: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
Lieutenant Colonel Burnley Campbell, an Englishman, claims the record after completing the circle of the world In forty days and nineteen and one-half hours. When Jules Verne sent his famous hero of romance, Phileas Fogg, on a tour of the world he allowed him only eighty days, but that was in 1872. According lo the two time schedules, both of which were extraordinary for their day, Campbell came out a whole lap ahead of his predecessor, but the lines of fast travel have changed vastly in thirty-five years.
- Description: In 1912, Edwin J. Bush traveled from his hometown of Portland, Maine, to the namesake Portland in Oregon. He did so by pushing a cart
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- 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: USA
- Description: Two blind wanderers, accompanied by a dog, embarked on a walking tour of Italy, covering approximately 3'000 km
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Italy, Italia, Italie
- 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: Italy, Italia, Italie
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