Huld Palle (w2347)

Huld Palle (w2347)

  • Description: Palle Huld was a Danish actor and globe-trotter. In 1928, at only 15 years old, he won a competition organized by a Copenhagen newspaper to celebrate the centenary of Jules Verne’s birth. The prize was a journey around the world without ever flying. Huld’s itinerary took him through Europe and the Soviet Union to Japan, and then across Canada and the United States, returning to Denmark after 44 days and roughly 35,000 km (21,750 miles). His journey attracted major media attention and later inspired Hergé in the creation of Tintin
  • Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
  • Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Denmark, Danimarca
  • Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1912–2010
  • 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/Palle_Huld
  • Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16154898
  • Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: A Boy Scout Round the World. Translated by Eleanor Hard. Coward-McCann Inc., New York 1929. Libera Stampa, April 18, 1928.

È giunto a Copenhagen sabato scorso il giovane danese Palla Huld, dopo aver compiuto in 44 giorni il giro del mondo, per commemorare il centenario di Giulio Verne. Bravo e ardito ragazzo.

Hunt Jackson Helen (w3142)

Hunt Jackson Helen (w3142)

  • Description: Helen Hunt Jackson was an American writer and activist committed to defending Native American rights. After an early career as a poet and short story writer, she traveled extensively across the United States—especially in the Southwest—to document injustices against Indigenous peoples. Her findings were published in A Century of Dishonor (1881), a searing indictment of the U.S. government. She also used fiction to advocate her cause, most notably through the novel Ramona (1884), set in California, which had a significant impact on public awareness. Her travels were not exotic adventures, but rather instruments of social critique
  • Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Helen Maria Fiske
  • Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
  • Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1830–1885
  • Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
  • Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: USA
  • Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Hunt_Jackson
  • Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q462363
  • Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Hunt Jackson, Helen. Bits of travel. Boston: J.R. Osgood, 1874.

Could we have trout? No. Chicken? No. Beefsteak ? No. What could we have ? Veal and eggs. The strangers from Gastein had eaten up everything else which the Bockstein inn possessed. Veal and eggs are the two staple delights of the German stomach; the veal steaming with fat and mustard, and the eggs horrible with butter and garlic. Ugh 1 All my life I shall remember the egg-salad which dear Marie added to our dinner yesterday, and of which I tasted, to appear civil, but was positively obliged to swallow hastily, like calomel, by help of great mouthfuls of beer. I thought I had tasted of bad things in Italy, but I give Germany the unquestioned palm.

Hunt Jackson, Helen. Bits of travel. Boston: J.R. Osgood, 1874.

Iozzia Salvatore (w2074)

Iozzia Salvatore (w2074)

  • Description: A one-legged cyclist
  • Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
  • Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Italy, Italia, Italie
  • 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
  • Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Il ciclista mutilato Iozzia Salvatore (italiano) che ha già compiuto il giro d'Italia e che sta compiendo il giro del mondo (km. 76'000) offre questo ricordo alla vostra volontà e generosità con mille grazie per il vostro aiuto
Humphreys Harry (w2067)

Humphreys Harry (w2067)

  • Description: Humphreys crossed the USA from San Francisco to New York, continuing his around-the-world journey that was intended to include all the capitals
  • Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
  • Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: -
  • Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
  • Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Motorbike, Motocicletta, Moto
  • Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: -
  • Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Minneapolis Two Speed Motorcycle Using Goodyear tires. Started from Los Angeles, California, finish Panama Expo 1915. Total 65'000 miles. Mr. Humphries holds two worlds records made in New York 1911. And the International in S. Africa
Iemerowski Paul (w2070)

Iemerowski Paul (w2070)

  • Description: According to the Corriere del Ticino dated January 9, 1930, Paul Iemerowski from Berlin embarked on a world tour in 1927, planning to complete it in 10 years. By 1930, he had reached Switzerland, having traveled through Germany, Russia, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, and North Africa
  • Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
  • Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Germany, Germania, Allemagne
  • Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
  • Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: -
  • Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
  • Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Corriere del Ticino, 09.01.1930.
Ivany Janos, Girardini Istvian (w2078)

Ivany Janos, Girardini Istvian (w2078)

  • Description: Ivany Janos from Bratislava and Istvian Girardini from Budapest embarked on a world tour by bicycle
  • Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
  • Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: -
  • 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
  • Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Il giro del mondo in bicicletta, le tour du monde avec la biciclette, Reise um die Welt mit Fahrrad, The turn into the world with a bicycle
Humphries Elizabeth Ann (w3129)

Humphries Elizabeth Ann (w3129)

  • Description: Elizabeth Ann Yates, born in Halifax in 1883, undertook a long walking journey around the world. After moving to Canada and marrying in New York in 1910, she walked to Florida with her husband. In 1911, she accepted a wager to walk 48,000 miles in four years. She left from New York, crossed Canada, and reached England. After parting ways with her husband, she continued alone through Scandinavia, Russia, and Europe. To support herself, she sold postcards and gave talks. She ended the journey at the start of the First World War. She died in Florida in 1960. Her travel items are now held in Caldedale museum
  • Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Lizzie Humphries
  • Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: UK, Inglese, Anglais
  • Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1883-1960
  • 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://museums.calderdale.gov.uk/lizzie-humphries-lady-globetrotter
  • Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Robert Hamilton, The Lady Globetrotter: The Story of a Woman's Endurance, 2021.
  • Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Walking 48000 miles around the World
Innocenti Arnaldo (w2072)

Innocenti Arnaldo (w2072)

  • Description: Between February 29, 1898, and October 15, 1903, the Italian long-distance runner Arnaldo Innocenti covered 10'000 km on foot across Europe and the Far East
  • 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: Various, Diversi, Différents
  • Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: La Tribuna Illustrata, October 27, 1907.
Jackson Horatio Nelson (w2079)

Jackson Horatio Nelson (w2079)

  • Description: Horatio Nelson Jackson, an American physician, is renowned for making the first successful automobile trip across the United States in 1903. This journey from San Francisco to New York City, undertaken with his mechanic Sewall Crocker and a dog named Bud, demonstrated the potential of automobiles and significantly influenced the American car culture
  • Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Mad Doctor
  • Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
  • Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1872-1955
  • Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Car or similar, Mezzi a motore, Moyen motorisé
  • Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: USA
  • Internet: http://www.pbs.org/horatio
  • Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11338080
  • Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Duncan D., Burns K., Horatio's drive: America's first road trip, Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.

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Precursori, Forerunners, Précurseurs
Viaggi stravaganti, Weird travels, Voyages insolites
Globetrotter contemporanei, Contemporary globetrotters, Globetrotteurs contemporains
Personaggi fittizi, Fictional character, Personnages de fiction

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