- 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: Dorothy May Pine graduated in nutrition from the University of Kansas, where she met Robert Eugene Pine, whom she married on 26 July 1942. Robert served as a naval aviator for 22 years, after which the couple retired to Boulder, Colorado in 1963 and began travelling together extensively. Dorothy became the first woman to visit all destinations defined by the Travelers' Century Club (TCC) - 192 countries and 123 territories, island groups and special destinations, totalling 315 locations - and the couple became the first in the world to do so together. In 2006 they were recognised by the Colorado Senate and Colorado House of Representatives as the world's most travelled couple. Dorothy Pine is considered likely the first woman in the world to have visited every country, though the claim is inherently difficult to verify for historical travellers
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- 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/Dorothy_Pine
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72759609
- 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.
- Description: Taylor Demonbreun is an American world traveller. Two weeks after graduating from Vanderbilt University with a degree in economics and public policy, she departed on 1 June 2017 to visit every sovereign country in the world. On 7 December 2018, aged 24, she completed the journey in 1 year and 189 days, visiting 195 countries - the 193 UN member states, the Vatican and Chinese Taipei - becoming the Guinness World Record holder for the fastest time to visit all sovereign countries, both overall and female, breaking the records previously held by Cassandra De Pecol. She was also certified as the youngest person to have visited every country in the world. She financed the trip largely through travel industry sponsorships, living with an aunt in Dallas, Texas as a base. Her stated motivation was to encourage young women to travel solo and to demonstrate how similar people are around the world
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Trek with Taylor
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1994-
- 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.trekwithtaylor.com
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72759170
- 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: Eva Dickson was a Swedish explorer, rally driver, aviator, war correspondent and travel writer. She financed her journeys by placing bets with wealthy society acquaintances. In 1932, together with her schoolfriend Littan Bennich, she drove from Nairobi to Stockholm - a journey of 27 driving days across Africa and through the Sahara - becoming the first woman to cross the Sahara Desert by car. The journey is recounted in her book En Eva i Sahara (Albert Bonniers, 1933). In 1934 she participated in scientific expeditions in the Congo and Uganda. In 1935 she travelled to Ethiopia with Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke - former husband of Karen Blixen - as war correspondent for the Swedish weekly Vecko-Journalen during the Abyssinian Crisis, returning to Kenya on mules over 2,000 km. On 3 June 1937 she departed Stockholm alone in an open-top Ford with the goal of becoming the first person to drive the Silk Road to Beijing. Her route covered Germany, Poland, Romania, Turkey, Syria, Iran and Afghanistan before illness forced a detour through India. On reaching Calcutta she ran out of funds and learned of the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War, abandoning the Beijing plan. Despite her poor health she drove back toward Europe. In March 1938, after nine months on the road, she died in a car accident near Baghdad while returning to her hotel after dinner at friends' house. She was 33 years old
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Eva Lindström; Anton Johansson
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Sweden, Svezia, Suède
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1905-1938
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Car or similar, Mezzi a motore, Moyen motorisé
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Silk Road, Via della Seta, Route de la Soie
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Dickson
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3815471
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Dickson, Eva. En Eva i Sahara. Stockholm: Albert Bonniers, 1933.
- Description: Cassandra "Cassie" De Pecol is an American traveller, author, activist and speaker. Under the initiative she named "Expedition 196", acting as a peace ambassador for the International Institute of Peace Through Tourism and SKAL International, she visited all 196 countries recognised by Guinness World Records - the 193 UN member states plus Taiwan, Kosovo and Palestine - between 24 July 2015 and 2 February 2017, a total of 18 months and 26 days. In 2017 Guinness World Records certified two titles: "Fastest Time to Visit All Sovereign Countries" and "Fastest Time to Visit All Sovereign Countries - Female". Both records were subsequently broken in 2019 by Taylor Demonbreun
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1989-
- 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/Cassandra_De_Pecol
- Multimedia: https://www.youtube.com/c/cassiedepecol
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28871465
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