- Description: Lemuel Gulliver is the protagonist of Jonathan Swift’s satirical masterpiece Gulliver’s Travels (1726). Introduced as an English surgeon and sailor born in 1661, Gulliver narrates his astonishing adventures: he is shipwrecked in Lilliput, land of the tiny; brought to Brobdingnag, the realm of giants; visits Laputa, the floating island of obsessive scientists; and finally reaches the land of the Houyhnhnms, rational horses living without deceit, opposed to the brutish Yahoos. Swift's savage satire view mankind in a distorted hall of mirrors as a diminished, magnified and finally bestial species, presenting us with an uncompromising reflection of ourselves
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: -
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: -
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuel_Gulliver
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1068229
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Swift, Jonathan, Gulliver’s Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, London, 1726.
- Description: Eight Years Cycling Around the World
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Switzerland, Svizzera, Suisse
- 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: http://www.veraluc.com
- Description: At only nineteen years old, the enigmatic Dora Rodrigues embarked on a walking journey around the world. She claimed to be the daughter of a wealthy diamond merchant from Amsterdam and reported that she had crossed every country in Europe on foot, as well as Egypt, Turkey, Canada, Mexico, and the United States. In 1912, American newspapers published article after article about the courageous and attractive young woman who supposedly carried “a .38-caliber revolver in true Western style”. Curiously, in the preceding years, no European newspaper made any mention of her supposed trek across Europe, leaving significant doubts about the authenticity of her story
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Netherlands, Olanda, Hollande
- 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: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://globetrottermanie.nl
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Greeting from Miss Dora Rodrigues the girl from Holland on her trip around the world
- Description: Frank Lenz started his global tour in 1892 on a "safety-bicycle" Victor with pneumatic tires (invented by John Dunlop in 1888). He cycled solo across the United States from East to West, entered China, reached Burma, India, and Persia. His adventures were regularly featured in "Outing" magazine. His journey ended tragically in Turkey, just before Erzurum, where he was murdered
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1867-1894
- 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lenz_(cyclist)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1443278
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Herlihy D. V., The Lost Cyclist: The Epic Tale of an American Adventurer and His Mysterious Disappearance, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
- Description: Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on April 25, 1719. The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents. Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is presented as an autobiography of the title character—a castaway who spends twenty-eight years on a remote tropical desert island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers, before ultimately being rescued. The story has since been thought to be based on the life of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on a Pacific island called "Más a Tierra", now part of Chile, which was renamed Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966, but various literary sources have also been suggested. Despite its simple narrative style, Robinson Crusoe was well received in the literary world and is often credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre. It is generally seen as a contender for the first English novel. Before the end of 1719, the book had already run through four editions, and it has gone on to become one of the most widely published books in history, spawning numerous imitations in film, television and radio
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- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: -
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: -
- Internet: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12623
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q483034
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Defoe D., Robinson Crusoe. Hertford, Wordsworth Classics, 1993.
- Description: On August 1, 1999, Polly Letofsky left Colorado (USA) to embark on a 5-year journey around the world. She returned home on July 30, 2004, after walking 22'730 kilometers (14'124 miles) and raising $250'000 for cancer research. Polly became the first woman to officially walk around the world
- 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: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: http://www.pollyletofsky.com
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Letofsky Polly, 3mph: The Adventures of One Woman's Walk Around the World, Globalwalk Press, 2013.
- Description: Elisabeth Robins and her husband Joseph Pennell toured Italy by bicycle in 1884. She was the first woman to traverse ten Alpine passes between Switzerland, Austria, and Italy in 1887. Many other adventures are documented in their books
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: UK, Inglese, Anglais
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1855-1936
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Bike, Bicicletta, Vélo
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Europe, Europa
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Pennell J., Robins E., A Canterbury pilgrimage, New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1885.
- Description: In 1885, he claimed to have traveled the roads of the United States with a piglet following a bet
- 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: P. B. Lespinasse, of Spring Valley, Rockland County, N. Y., having made and lost a wager with a neighbouring farmer on the recent Presidential election, will walk from New York City to Washington D.C., carrying a live pig and rooster. Will start about the first of February from Madison Square, New York City, and arrive in Washington on the eve of March 3d. As a means of defraying the expense of himself and the winner, will dispose of these photographs to democrats and republicans. In fulfilling the above wager, the loser will redeem the amount lost on his return to Rockland County
- Description: Gottfried Rodrigues left Amsterdam in 1909 for a journey 'Around The World On A Wager.' Without luggage and money, he traveled through Europe, the United States, Japan, China, and Siberia
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Netherlands, Olanda, Hollande
- 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: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Around The World On A Wager
Gottfried Rodrigues, a joung adventurous newspaper man from Holland, the land of wooden shoes and windmills, arrived tonight in Ogden on his way to New York, from where, after duo training, he will endeavor to reach the Golden Gate city on the shores of the Pacific in record smashing time.
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