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- Description: The Thomas couple, accompanied by a small dog, tackled on foot the road separating Columbus, Ohio, from San Francisco, California, covering a total of 2'500 miles
- 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
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Mr. and Mrs Robt. L. Thomas, walking from Columbus - O. to San Francisco
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- Description: Frederick Diodati Thompson, an American traveler and author, published In the Track of the Sun: Readings from the Diary of a Globe Trotter in 1893, lavishly illustrated by Harry Fenn, one of the leading engravers and illustrators of late-Victorian America. The book follows the itinerary of a late-19th-century globetrotter across Europe, Egypt, India, Ceylon, Burma, China, Japan, and the Pacific, before returning to the United States. Its numerous illustrations - port scenes, landscapes, temples, and portraits of local life - give the volume both documentary and aesthetic value, turning it into a visual travelogue that exemplifies the high point of the illustrated travel book tradition
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1850-1906
- 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://archive.org/details/intrackofsunread00thom
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113804666
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Thompson, Frederick Diodati, e Harry Fenn. In the Track of the Sun; Readings from the Diary of a Globe Trotter. New York: D. Appleton, 1893.
Mr. Thompson left New York for Chicago on October 14th, 1891, and returned to that city on May 18th in the following year. This handsome volume records by pen and pencil what he saw and thought of lands, seas, men, and cities during that time. He began by going across the Continent to Victoria, British Columbia ; went thence to Vancouver, and from Vancouver sailed to Japan. Japan seems to have exercised on him its customary fascination. China did not please him as much. (Why, we may ask, the very hideous picture of "After the Execution" ?).
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- Description: Peter Root and Mary Thompson set off from Guernsey, in the Channel Islands, in 2011, planning to cycle around the world. After traveling the roads of Europe, the Middle East, and China, they were struck and killed instantly by a pickup truck in Thailand on February 13, 2013
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: UK, Inglese, Anglais
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- 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
- Internet: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/feb/18/british-cyclists-killed-thailand
- Multimedia: https://vimeo.com/twoonfourwheels
We are Mary Thompson and Peter Root. At 5.00pm on the 12th July 2011 we got the boat to France with loads of stuff and two bikes. We’ve created this website to document our adventures along the way.
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- Description: Rob Thompson took his skateboard and equipped it with a trailer to carry essentials. He departed from Leysin, Switzerland, on June 25, 2007, and arrived in Shanghai on September 28, 2008, covering 12'000 kilometers. In his blog, he recounts this incredible adventure, which began a few years earlier with a similar journey but on a bicycle
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: -
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Others, Altri, Autres
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: -
- Internet: http://www.14degrees.org
I sat down one day and jotted down some thoughts on why exactly I want to do this. Usually I wouldn’t feel a need to justify myself, but, I mean come on, around the world by recumbent bicycle and skateboard?
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- Description: Thompson and Glover embarked on a transcontinental tour in 1907
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Car or similar, Mezzi a motore, Moyen motorisé
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: USA
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Thompson & Glover of Hollywood on their transcontinental tour in their 1907 Brush, one of the oldest gas buggies in actual service
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- Description: Around the world bicycle tour in the 1920s
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Denmark, Danimarca
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- 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
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Thorenfeldt K., Round the world on a cycle, London, Selwyn & Blount LTD, 1928.
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- Description: On the postcard, one of the two globetrotters is portrayed in front of the Temple of Zeus in Athens
- 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: Europe, Europa
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Temple de Jupiter Athènes
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- Description: Alfred Henry Tipper, an eccentric Australian, inventor, painter, and avid cyclist, began wandering the world in 1887. In 1908, he left Australia with just 1 penny in his pocket and returned six years later having covered 85'000 miles (136'794 km) and with 6 pounds and 6 pence in his pocket. In 1924, he traveled 85'000 miles aboard a Ford van remodeled into the shape of a horse
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: The Wonderful Man, Professor Tipper
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Australia
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1867-1944
- 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tipper
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4723528
Alfred Henry Tipper (1867-1944), cyclist and showman, was born on 12 July 1867 at Sale, Victoria, second son of Thomas Tipper, a grocer from England, and his Irish-born wife Catherine, née Chadwick. Alfred claimed to have been abandoned by his parents at the age of 2 and brought up as a ward of the state. In his youth he worked on a dairy farm and also acquired a considerable knowledge of mechanics. He took up competitive cycling in the 1880s, during the early stages of the boom in that sport.
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- Description: Ralph D. Tompkins, the one-legged champion, crutched from Yonkers to Florida. As reported by The New York Times on April 10, 1912, the year before, Tompkins had walked from New York to Chicago and back, with comparable times to Weston. According to the newspaper, he lost his leg in a childhood railway accident
- 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