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- 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.
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- 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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- 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.
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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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- Description: Vishnudas Sheshrao Chapke is an Indian journalist, former college lecturer and overland circumnavigator. Inspired by an interview he conducted with naval captain Dilip Donde after his solo maritime circumnavigation in 2010, Chapke departed Thane railway station, Mumbai, on 19 March 2016 on what he initially planned as a three-month holiday to northeast India. What began as an unplanned trip expanded spontaneously into a three-year circumnavigation of the globe. Travelling west to east by a combination of walking, hitchhiking and public transport, entirely on a minimal budget funded by friends' donations, he covered 35 countries across five continents - Asia, Australia, South America, Central America and Europe - returning to Thane on 22 March 2019, after 1,097 days
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Vishnu Da Gama
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: India
- 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
- Multimedia: https://www.youtube.com/@VishnudasChapke
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Chapke, Vishnudas. Wings of Hope: Unplanned Trip Around the World.
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- Description: Tom Turcich became the tenth person on record to walk around the world. Motivated by the death of two close friends in his teenage years, he spent eight years saving and planning before setting out on 2 April 2015. His route covered South America, Antarctica, Europe, North Africa, Central Asia and North America, crossing six continents and 38 countries in seven years. Approximately five months into the journey, he adopted a rescue puppy from an Austin, Texas shelter, naming her Savannah; she walked with him for the remainder of the trip, becoming the first dog to circumnavigate the world on foot. The journey was interrupted by a serious illness in Peru and by the COVID-19 pandemic, which stranded him in Azerbaijan. He was robbed at knifepoint in Panama and held at gunpoint in Turkey. On 21 May 2022 he completed the walk, returning to Haddon Township. In total he covered approximately 45,000 km (28,000 miles)
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: The World Walk
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- 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: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://www.tomturcich.com
- Multimedia: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheWorldWalk
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Turcich, Tom. The World Walk: 7 Years, 28,000 Miles, 6 Continents: A Grand Meditation One Step at a Time. Skyhorse Publishing, 2024.
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- Description: Serge Girard is a French ultramarathon runner. Prior to his world circumnavigation he set several continental running records: USA Los Angeles - New York City, 4,597 km in 52 days (1997); Australia Perth - Sydney, 3,755 km in 46 days (1999); South America Lima - Rio de Janeiro, 5,235 km in 73 days (2001); Africa Dakar - Cairo, 8,295 km in 123 days (2003-2004); Eurasia Paris - Shanghai, 11,538 km in 161 days (2005-2006). Between 2016 and 8 April 2017 he completed a solo running circumnavigation of the world covering 26,245 km across five continents and 18 countries in 434 days - without a single rest day - setting the current men's world record certified by the World Runners Association (WRA)
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: France, Francia
- 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: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://sergegirard.com
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3479331