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- Description: In 1998, Benoît Lecompte became the first daring individual to swim across the Atlantic. He covered the 5'500 km that separate France from the United States in 74 days
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: France, Francia
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1967-
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Swimming, A nuoto, A la nage
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Atlantic Ocean, Atlantico, Atlantique
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beno%C3%AEt_Lecomte
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1771229
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- Description: Roady Bill and his pony Tony traveled 39'200 miles, starting from New York in 1928 towards San Francisco, Mexico, Canada, Europe, and Africa
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Wagon, Carro, Char
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Pioneer Covered Wagon; The only pony in the world that ever made this trip. Left New York Jan. 1928, for San Francisco, Calif., Mexico, Canada, Europe and Africa, covering 39,200 miles by land and 24,325 by sea. The only pony in the world that ever made the trip
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- Description: The family, husband, wife, and two children, departed from Orlando, Florida, for Southern Indiana, USA
- 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: Orlando, Fla, to Southern Ind.
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- Description: Goldie Robbins from Knox County, Indiana, traveled through the West and Midwest of the United States during the 1950s and 1960s. She used a mule-drawn wagon named 'Mule Train traveling America
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Yellowstone Pete
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Wagon, Carro, Char
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: USA
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Mule Train traveling America
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- Description: Lilian Leland reportedly traveled alone for 60'000 miles around the globe, starting at 25 and taking two years to complete her journey, as detailed in a book published in 1890. However, concrete evidence is scarce. Scatamacchia suggests the journey might never have occurred, proposing the book was likely written to capitalize on the public's fascination with women traveling alone, inspired by Nellie Bly's success, aiming to sell a narrative that catered to public curiosity
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- 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
- Internet: https://archive.org/details/travelingalonewo00lela
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Leland L., Traveling alone. A woman's journey around the world, New York, The American News Company, 1890. Scatamacchia C., Nellie Bly: Un'avventurosa giornalista e viaggiatrice americana dell'Ottocento, Perugia: Morlacchi Editore, 2002.
The successful accomplishment of a journey of nearly sixty thousand miles, made by a young woman, traveling alone, is calculated to excite wonder and admiration ; and when the record of that journey is replete with original thought, the emanations of a bright intellect, it possesses a special interest.
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- Description: World tour on foot by the globetrotter Lelouvier
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: -
- 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: Die Reise um die Welt zu Fuss, Eugène Lelouvier globe-trotter der Zeitung "La Patrie" Paris
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- 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
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.