- Description: Vyacheslav Vasilyevich Krasko is a Russian traveller, author and entrepreneur with a PhD in Economics. After graduating from the Saint Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance and the University of Paris IX-Dauphine, he held senior positions in leading Russian banks for seventeen years and served as Financial Director in companies belonging to Roman Abramovich and Oleg Deripaska. In April 2010 he resigned and set off on a round-the-world journey lasting just over one year, visiting 36 countries across six continents and covering 137,000 km in total, of which 52,000 km overland. On his return in 2011 he was admitted to the Union of Russian Around-the-World Travellers and founded his own adventure travel company, "The Year of Spring" (Год Весны). He recounted the journey in God Vesny ("The Year of Spring", Postum, Moscow, 2012)
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Russia, Russia, Russie
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Vari, Divers
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyacheslav_Krasko
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4239824
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Krasko, Vyacheslav. God Vesny: Puteshestviye dlinoyu v god. Mosca: Postum, 2012.
- Description: Gunther Holtorf had a lengthy career with Lufthansa as country director in Argentina, Chile, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Uruguay, followed by a role as managing director of Hapag-Lloyd Flug. In 1989, after resigning his position, he set off from Germany with his third wife Beate in a 1988 Mercedes-Benz 300GD G-Wagen he named "Otto", with the initial intention of spending 18 months exploring Africa. The journey expanded into a 26-year round-the-world expedition. From 1990 his companion was Christine, whom he married shortly before her death from cancer in 2010; her son Martin occasionally joined as travel companion from 2007. Holtorf completed the journey alone on 16 October 2014, having visited 179 countries and covered approximately 900,000 km (560,000 miles) across all continents including North Korea, Myanmar and a 25,000 km solo crossing of China - routes he described as "pioneer tours" for being the first time a foreign vehicle had been granted access. Otto ran on its original engine throughout, carrying 400 spare parts in aluminium roof boxes and never suffering a breakdown. Otto is now on permanent display at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Untertürkheim, Stuttgart
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Germany, Germania, Allemagne
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1937-2021
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Car or similar, Mezzi a motore, Moyen motorisé
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunther_Holtorf
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18347627
- Description: Barbara Toy was an Australian-British travel writer, theatrical director, playwright and screenwriter. After managing the Richmond Theatre in London and driving an ambulance during the Blitz, her life changed in 1950 when a colleague bet her she could not drive to Baghdad. She immediately purchased a second-hand 1950 Land Rover Series I 80" soft-top, which she named "Pollyanna", and set off. A brigadier she met in Gibraltar called her a "fool on wheels" - the title of her first book. She drove east across North Africa - Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt - then by ship to Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Iraq, winning the bet. She is recognised as one of the first people, and the first woman, to pioneer long-distance solo overland expeditions by Land Rover, predating the celebrated six-man Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition by nearly five years. Her subsequent journeys covered Libya (1952), Saudi Arabia (1953) - where she became one of the first women permitted to travel solo in the country, receiving gifts from King Abdulaziz - and a round-the-world journey (1956-57) through Turkey, Pakistan, Asia, Australia and the United States, recounted in Columbus Was Right! (1958). In 1959 she drove from Libya through the Sahara, the Congo and Ethiopia in search of the Queen of Sheba. By 1959, Pollyanna had covered over 210,000 miles. In 1990, aged 82, she completed a second round-the-world journey in the original Pollyanna, arriving home just before Christmas
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Australia
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1908-2001
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Car or similar, Mezzi a motore, Moyen motorisé
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Toy
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15995547
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Toy, Barbara. A Fool on Wheels: Tangier to Baghdad by Land Rover. London: John Murray, 1955.
- Description: Santhosh George Kulangara is an Indian traveller, television producer, director, broadcaster, editor and publisher. He began his career in television media at the age of 17, producing documentaries for Doordarshan. In 1997 he began solo travel outside India, documenting his journeys in Sancharam ("Travel"), the first visual travelogue in the Malayalam language, initially broadcast on Asianet from 2001 to 2012 and later on his own channel. As of 2025 he has travelled through 151 countries across all seven continents. In 2013 he founded Safari TV, the first Indian channel dedicated exclusively to travel, history and exploration, of which he serves as founder and Chief Explorer
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: SGK; Chief Explorer
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: India
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Vari, Divers
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://www.safaritv.in
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109475054
- Description: Valery Sushkov is a Russian travel explorer, postal historian, documentary filmmaker, sommelier, restaurateur and hotelier with over 30 years of experience in the tourism and hospitality industry. He is the originator of the concept of "philatourism" - a form of travel combining philately and tourism - and the author of the world's first philatourism guidebook, published in Russia. He has visited over 50 countries, created over 100 travel brands, and participated in or organised over 100 expeditions across six continents. Notable expeditions include participation in an Antarctic expedition to the South Pole as a radio operator, and the organisation and leadership of an expedition to Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa. He is also an editor of regional guidebooks, director, screenwriter and producer of travel documentaries
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: philatourist №1
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Russia, Russia, Russie
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Vari, Divers
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://postventure.ru/valery-sushkov
- Multimedia: https://rutube.ru/video/7b2a9f03220f8a892d4f0e5b87de6cbf/
- Description: Lyuba Kutincheva was a Bulgarian traveller, journalist, photographer and polyglot who spoke at least seven languages including French, Romanian, Turkish, Russian, Arabic and Esperanto. Between 1929 and 1939 she travelled for almost a decade through the Middle East, Far East, North Africa and Europe, visiting Syria, Palestine, Transjordan, Egypt, Abyssinia, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Persia, Afghanistan, Oman, India, Burma, Ceylon, Borneo, Sumatra, the Philippines, Formosa, Siam, China, Japan, Southern Sakhalin, Madagascar, Algeria, Spanish Morocco, Tunisia and Libya. She financed her travels partly by giving public lectures about Bulgarian culture and life, and partly through journalism for Western publications. She claimed to be the first European woman to visit Mecca, Medina, Yemen, Oman and Muscat, and the first European woman to cross the jungle on foot from Madras to Bangkok. She was photographed with numerous heads of state and rulers, including King Faisal I of Iraq, the Sultan of Muscat and the Maharajah of Baroda. Her archives - including detailed notes, photographs inscribed in Arabic, Hindi, Pashto, Japanese, Chinese and other languages, and a travelogue on Japan - were donated to the State Archives of Sofia in 1968. The exact purpose of her travels has never been established; her close contacts with Soviet diplomats have led to speculation about an intelligence role, which she never acknowledged. She published one book, Japan - Personal Impressions, Observations and Research (Stara Zagora, 1942)
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Lyuba Kutincheva Dagorova
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Bulgaria
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1910-1998
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Vari, Divers
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Various, Vari, Divers
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyuba_Kutincheva
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60442367
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Kutincheva, Lyuba. Japan - Personal Impressions, Observations and Research. Stara Zagora: Rodina Printing House, 1942.
- Description: Born Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Abdallah al-Lawati al-Tanji ibn Battuta on 24 February 1304 in Tangier, Morocco, Ibn Battuta was a Berber Muslim scholar, jurist and explorer, widely considered the greatest traveller of the pre-modern world. On 14 June 1325, aged 21, he departed Tangier on what he intended as a hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. He never stopped travelling. Over the following 29 years he covered approximately 120,000 km (75,000 miles) - a distance unsurpassed by any individual explorer until the steam age some 450 years later - visiting the equivalent of 44 modern countries across North Africa, the Horn of Africa, West Africa, Southern and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and China. His journeys took him through Morocco, Egypt, the Levant, Persia, Iraq, the Arabian Peninsula, East Africa, Anatolia, the Black Sea, the Golden Horde, Central Asia, India - where he served as a qadi in Delhi for seven years under Sultan Muhammad bin Tughluq - the Maldives, China, the Sahara and Mali. He never visited the same place twice if he could avoid it. Between 1352 and 1355, at the request of the Sultan of Morocco, he dictated his memoirs to the scholar Ibn Juzay al-Kalbi, who compiled them into the Rihla - formally titled A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Travelling - the most detailed account of the medieval world produced by a single observer. Modern scholars note that some sections, particularly those concerning China, may have been embellished or drawn from other sources
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Morocco, Marocco, Maroc
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Vari, Divers
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Battuta
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7331
- Description: On 17 March 1999 Kevin Thomson departed Vancouver, British Columbia, pulling a self-built running cart he named "RoadRunner", with the goal of crossing Canada on foot from coast to coast to deliver greetings to the 50,000 Canadians gathered in St. John's, Newfoundland, to celebrate the new millennium. He completed the run on 31 December 1999, covering approximately 8,000 km in just over nine months. The journey was self-supported and undertaken without charitable sponsorship
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Coyote Kevin
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Canada
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On foot, A piedi, À pied
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Americas, Americhe, Amérique
- Internet: https://kevinthomson.com
- Description: Jeanne Baré (also spelled Baret or Barret) was a self-taught botanist known as an "herb woman" for her knowledge of medicinal plants. In the early 1760s she became housekeeper and assistant to the naturalist Philibert Commerson. In 1766, when Commerson was invited to join Louis-Antoine de Bougainville's round-the-world scientific expedition aboard the storeship Étoile, Baré disguised herself as a man - calling herself "Jean" - to board the vessel as Commerson's valet, since French naval regulations at the time penalised men who brought women aboard. During the voyage she contributed significantly to botanical research, helping to amass the largest individual natural history collection of the time, including the plant later named bougainvillea after the expedition's commander. Her identity as a woman was revealed during the voyage, reportedly in Tahiti in 1768. She and Commerson disembarked in Mauritius, where she remained after his death in 1773, running a tavern. In 1774 she married French soldier Jean Dubernat and returned with him to France around 1775, thus completing her circumnavigation. In 1785 the French Ministry of Marine awarded her a pension of 200 livres a year, describing her in the official document as an "extraordinary woman." In 2012 a species of vine, Solanum baretiae, was named in her honour. She died on 5 August 1807 in Saint-Aulaye, Dordogne, aged 67. Guinness World Records certifies her as the first woman to circumnavigate the globe
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Jean Baré
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: France, Francia
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1740-1807
- 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://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Barret
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q437168
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Ridley, Glynis. The Discovery of Jeanne Baret. New York: Crown Publishers, 2010.
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